connector

English

SMA connector

SMA connector male to male

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Latin con-

Latin nectō

Latin cōnectō

Latin connectō

English connect

English -or

English connector

From connect + -or.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kəˈnɛktɚ/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

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.

Derived terms

• banana connector
• barrel nut connector
• blade connector
• BNC connector
• cone connector
• connectorize
• connectorless
• DIN connector
• dock connector
• dot connector
• Euroconnector
• microconnector
• miniconnector
• Molex connector
• park connector
• thimble connector
• TRS connector
• wire connector

Translations

electrical engineering: mating pair of devices

• Belarusian: злуча́льнік m (zlučálʹnik)
• Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} клема (bg) f (klema)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 連接器 / 连接器 (zh) (liánjiēqì)

• Czech: konektor (cs) m
• Dutch: connector (nl) m, verbindingsstuk (nl) n
• Esperanto: kontaktilo (eo), konektilo
• Finnish: liitin (fi)
• French: connecteur (fr) m
• German: Verbinder m, Verbindungsstecker m, Steckverbinder (de) m
• Greek: ζευκτήρας (el) m (zefktíras)
• Hebrew: מחבר (he) m (makhbar)
• Japanese: 端子 (ja) (tanshi)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kobling (no) m or f

• Persian: بستال
• Polish: złącze (pl) n
• Portuguese: conexão (pt) f, conector (pt) m
• Romanian: conector (ro) n
• Russian: соеди́нитель (ru) m (sojedínitelʹ), конне́ктор (ru) m (konnéktor)
• Spanish: conector m
• Swedish: kontaktdon (sv), koppling (sv) c, skarv (sv) c, skarvdon c, kontakt (sv) c
• Ukrainian: з'єднувач m (zʺjednuvač), коне́ктор m (konéktor)

road connecting other roads

• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: anslutning (sv) c, anslutningsväg c

line connecting two shapes

• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Czech: spojnice f
• Esperanto: konektilo

Latin

Verb

connector

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of connectō