[f. CONNECT v. + -ER1. The form connector is not on a L. type (the L. is connexor); but is favored in the special senses under 2, on the analogy of specific terms in -or: see -OR.]
1. One who, or that which, connects.
1815. W. Taylor, in Monthly Mag., XXXVIII. 500. Commerce, that connecter of nations.
c. 1817. Hogg, Tales & Sk., V. 110. Religion is … the connector of humanity with the Divine nature.
2. spec. a. A small tube of india-rubber or other material for connecting glass or other tubes. b. Electr. A device for holding two parts of a conductor in intimate contact. c. A railway-coupling.
1795. Wells, in Phil. Trans., LXXXV. 249. I accidentally applied the metal I had used as the connector … to the coating of the muscle only.
1827. Faraday, Chem. Manip., xv. 360. Connecters are short perforated pieces of metal … Their use is to connect together stop-cocks or other parts of apparatus.
1839–47. Todd, Cycl. Anat., 794/1. A connector of caoutchouc.
1882. Syd. Soc. Lex., Connector … of india-rubber for connecting … the ends of glass tubes.
