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1. Connecting or tending to connect
   "connective remarks between chapters"; "connective tissue in animals"

1. An uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words, phrases, clauses or sentences
   - conjunction, conjunctive, continuative
    
2. Something that connects things together
   "he soldered the connective";
   - connection, connexion [Brit], connector, connecter

Derived forms: connectives

See also: conjunctive

Type of: closed-class word, function word, functor, instrumentality, instrumentation, means

Encyclopedia: Connective