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synapse
Definition of synapse (Entry 2 of 2)
intransitive verb
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Noun
1899, in the meaning defined above
Verb
1910, in the meaning defined at sense 1
New Latin synapsis, from Greek, juncture, from synaptein to fasten together, from syn- + haptein to fasten
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