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nexusA software module in Microsoft's Windows security platform (see NGSCB). The word stands for a connecting point or bond between two entities. See also LexisNexis. nexus [′nek·səs] (communications) A connection or interconnection of a communications system, such as a data link or a network of branches and nodes. (physiology) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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It is possible to understand that Napoleon had power and so events occurred; with some effort one may even conceive that Napoleon together with other influences was the cause of an event; but how a book, Le Contrat social, had the effect of making Frenchmen begin to drown one another cannot be understood without an explanation of the causal nexus of this new force with the event. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his "natural superiors," and has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous "cash payment. |
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