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SMA connector

SMA connector male to male

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

English connector

From connect + -or.

connector (plural connectors)

  1. One who connects; a networker.
    • 2008, Duncan Brown, Nicky Hayes, Influencer Marketing, page 38:
      There are only a few genuine social connectors. True connectors collect people like other collectors collect stamps.
  2. (chiefly electrical engineering) A device (or, more precisely, a mating pair of devices, often a plug and a socket) for connecting together two wires, cables, or hoses, allowing electricity or fluid to flow but also allowing easy disconnection and reconnection when necessary.
    • 2001, Scott Mueller, Mark Edward Soper, Upgrading and Repairing PCs: Technician's Portable Reference, Que Publishing, →ISBN, page 115:
      Because SCSI is actually a family of standards, each with its own cable and connector, matching cables and connectors to the appropriate SCSI “family member” is important.
  3. (US, road transport) A highway or freeway road which connects to another highway or freeway. It can be part of an interchange or a longer roadway such as the 1.5 mile (2.5 kilometer) U.S. Route 24 Connector.
  4. (computing) A line connecting two shapes in presentation software.
  5. (computing) A software component that provides access from an application program to an external database or data source, such as a JDBC connector.
    • 1999, Rick Greenwald, Walter J. Glenn, Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 Administrator's Companion, →ISBN, page 91:
      The X.400 connector can be used to connect two Exchange sites or to connect an Exchange site to a foreign X.400 messaging system.
  6. (mathematics) A map which can be defined for a linear connection.
  7. (poker) Any of a group of cards of consecutive face value, useful in forming straights etc.

electrical engineering: mating pair of devices

line connecting two shapes

connector

  1. first-person singular present passive indicative of connectō

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