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A connector end is an endpoint of a connector, which attaches the connector to a connectable element. Each connector end is

part of one connector.

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ConnectorConnector (Connector)

Specifies a link that enables communication between two or more instances. This link may be an instance of anassociation, or it may represent the possibility of the instances being able to communicate because their identitiesare known by virtue of being passed in as parameters, held in variables or slots, or because the communicatinginstances are the same instance.

The link may be realized by something as simple as a pointer or by something ascomplex as a network connection. In contrast to associations, which specify links between any instance of theassociated classifiers, connectors specify links between instances playing the connected parts only.