syndetic

English

From Latin syndeticus, from Ancient Greek συνδετικός (sundetikós), from σύνδετον (súndeton, “syndeton, use of conjunctions, a binding”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic: forming adjectives”), the neuter substantive of σῠ́νδετος (súndetos, “bound, joined”), from συνδεῖν (sundeîn, “to join, to bind”), from σῠν- (sun-, “together”) + δεῖν (deîn, “to bind, to tie”). Equivalent to syndeton +‎ -ic.

syndetic (not comparable)

(grammar) Of or related to syndeton, the use of a conjunction.
Guns and butter is a syndetic phrase.
- 1970, Mats Ryden, Coordination of Relative Clauses in Sixteenth Century English, page 73:
- Asymmetry in pronominal sequencing is a recurrent feature of syndetic coordination, though with considerable variation in relation to literary genre.
(grammar) Synonym of connective, serving to connect.
- 1874, Clair James Grece translating Eduard Adolf F. Maetzner as An English Grammar:
  With the syndetic juxtaposition of distinct members, the article is not often repeated.
(library science) Synonym of crossreferenced.
- 1958, Thomas Landau, Encyclopaedia of Librarianship, page 299:
  Syndetic, applied to an alphabetical subject catalogue or dictionary catalogue which includes cross-references as connecting links between subjects.
The dictionary includes syndetic references.
(mathematics) Having bounded gaps between its terms.
The gap between successive members of a syndetic set may vary but is always less than some specific value: i.e., there is an integer n such that {x,x+1,x+2,⋯,x+n}∩S≠∅ for any x∈N.