"nexûs" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2009, Alan Van Wyk, Michel Weber, Creativity and Its Discontents: The Response to Whitehead’s Process and Reality, kaufen, page 61",
          "text": "Such a particular fact of togetherness is called a ‘nexus’ (plural form is nexûs). The distinction between a nexus and a prehension is not made very clear, but in the list of the eight Categories of Existence prehensions are said to be Concrete Facts of Relatedness, and nexûs are said to be Public Matters of Fact.",
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      "enpr": "nĕkʹso͞os",
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