A nexus is the central point where connections meet. A nexus of power, the nexus between the two, a transport nexus.
It means the link as much as the place, and the nexus between two things is the connection joining them. It is formal and belongs to academic and legal writing. The plural is nexus or nexuses, and the Latin means a binding.
1nounnexusThe central point where connections meet.
“The city became a nexus of trade routes linking Asia and Europe.”
nexus is a connection.
Latin nexus means a binding or connection, from nectere, to bind. Connect is a relative.
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Borrowed from Latin nexus. From Latin nexus (“connection, nexus; act of binding, tying or fastening together; something which binds, binding, bond, fastening, joint; legal obligation”), from nectō (“to attach, bind, connect, fasten, tie; to interweave; to relate; to unite; to bind by obligation, make liable, oblige; to compose, contrive, devise, produce”) + -tus.
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