Connective
Connective is an adjective and a noun meaning something that links or binds things. In linguistics, a connective is a word or phrase that ties together clauses or sentences, providing cohesion and signaling relationships such as causality, contrast, or sequence. Common connectives include conjunctions like and, but, or; conjunctive adverbs like therefore, however; and relative connectives like that, which. In logic and computer science, a logical connective is an operator that combines truth-values to form compound statements, including AND, OR, NOT, IMPLIES, and if and only if.
In biology, connective tissue is a major tissue type that supports, binds, or separates other tissues and