syndetic, a.
(sɪnˈdɛtɪk)
[ad. Gr. συνδετικός, f. συνδεῖν to bind together.]
a. Serving to unite or connect; connective, copulative.
The incorrect form synderique in quot. 1621 is due to the Fr. orig. (nerfs synderiques, which is copied by Cotgrave).
| 1621 Lodge Summary Du Bartas i. 280 The Tendons..which the Physicions (after Hippocrates) haue called Synderique [read Syndetique] Nerues. 1891 Cent. Dict., Syndetic. |
b. Librarianship. Pertaining to or designating a catalogue, index, etc., which uses cross-references to indicate links between entries. Also used in automatic data-processing.
| 1876 C. A. Cutter Rules for Printed Dict. Catal. 15 Syndetic, connective, applied to that kind of dictionary catalogue which binds its entries together by means of cross-references so as to form a whole. 1958 T. Landau Encycl. Librarianship 299/2 Syndetic, applied to an alphabetical subject catalogue or dictionary catalogue which includes cross-references as connecting links between subjects. Ibid., Systematic catalogues have no need of such a syndetic apparatus. 1968 T. C. Hines Vocab. Control in indexing Lit. of Librarianship & Information Sci. (ERIC doc. No. ED050742) 16 Perhaps because of the concurrent use of shelf classification, library heading lists (although they include a syndetic apparatus which serves some of the same purposes) do not include the kind of classification of the headings themselves found in some thesauri expressed as ‘broader terms’. 1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia X. 869/1 Provision is made for cross-references from unused terms and from one term to a related one. A catalog containing these entries is known as a syndetic catalog. 1977 A. P. Jensen et al. (title) An instructional and research laboratory for syndetic analog-digital computation in science and engineering education. 1981 Resources in Educ. Oct. 138/2 This module describes the main subject heading, LC classification numbers which accompany the headings, ‘see’ references, ‘see also’ references, subheadings, and other syndetic features of the LC headings. |
So synˈdetical a.; hence synˈdetically adv.
| 1891 Cent. Dict., Syndetical. 1895 Funk's Stand. Dict., Syndetically. |