nexus vs zipper

nexus

noun
  • A centre or focus of something. 

  • A person who had contracted a nexum or obligation of such a kind that, if they failed to pay, their creditor could compel them to work as a servant until the debt was paid; an indentured servant. 

  • The relationship between a vendor and a jurisdiction for the purpose of taxation, established for example by the vendor operating a physical store in that jurisdiction. 

  • A form or state of connection. 

  • A connected group; a network, a web. 

  • In the work of the Danish linguist Otto Jespersen (1860–1943): a group of words expressing two concepts in one unit (such as a clause or sentence). 

zipper

noun
  • A string of clothes pegs or clips attached to the body and then quickly pulled off. 

  • A pressure-sensitive plastic closure. 

  • A leucine zipper. 

  • A zip fastener. 

  • A technique for arbitrarily traversing an aggregate data structure and updating its contents. See zipper (data structure). 

  • A scar on a person's body. 

verb
  • to put a zipper on an article. 

  • to close a zipper. 

How often have the words nexus and zipper occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )