सन्धि m. (
-न्धिः)
1. Union, junction, connection, combination.
2. Peace, making peace, pacification.
3. A hole, a chasm.
4. A hole made in a wall or underneath it to enter a building for hostile or felonious purposes, a breach, a mine, &c.
5. Breaking, dividing.
6. The vulva. 7. A division of a drama, apparently applicable to each subject represented or sentiment excited, as considered severally and detached from the rest, though contributing to the connection of the whole; contrast of incident, change of situation, transition of passion or emotion, &c.
8. An interval, a pause or rest.
9. A joint, an articulation of the body.
10. The union of letters, either at the end and beginning of different words, or in the middle of compound terms, to avoid dissonance or hiatus.
11. A period at the expiration of each Yuga or age, or one-sixth of its duration, intervening before the commencement of the next; a Sandhi, also, of the same length as the Satya-Yuga, occurs at the end of each Manwantara and each Kalpa.
12. Critical juncture, opportune moment.
13. (In mensuration,) The connecting link of a per- pendicular.
E. सम together,
धा to have or hold, aff.
कि of either the act, condition or instrument; whence the word becomes applicable to a chasm, &c., as to an interval, which whilst it divides, also connects, two parts or places.