Dictionary Definition
connection
Noun
1 a relation between things or events (as in the
case of one causing the other or sharing features with it); "there
was a connection between eating that pickle and having that
nightmare" [syn: connexion, connectedness] [ant:
unconnectedness]
2 the state of being connected; "the connection
between church and state is inescapable" [syn: link, connectedness] [ant:
disjunction]
3 an instrumentality that connects; "he soldered
the connection"; "he didn't have the right connector between the
amplifier and the speakers" [syn: connexion, connector, connecter, connective]
4 (usually plural) a person who is influential
and to whom you are connected in some way (as by family or
friendship); "he has powerful connections"
5 the process of bringing ideas or events
together in memory or imagination; "conditioning is a form of
learning by association" [syn: association, connexion]
7 a supplier (especially of narcotics)
8 shifting from one form of transportation to
another; "the plane was late and he missed his connection in
Atlanta" [syn: connexion]
9 the act of bringing two things into contact
(especially for communication); "the joining of hands around the
table"; "there was a connection via the internet" [syn: joining, connexion]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Etymology
From connexion < connexio "a conclusion, binding together" < connectō, an alternative spelling of cōnectō "I bind together" < compound of co- "together" and nectō "I bind"Noun
- The act of connecting.
- The point at which two or more things are connected.
- A feeling of understanding and ease of communication between two or more people.
- An established telephone call.
Translations
act of connecting
- Dutch: verbinding , connectie
- Esperanto: kunligo, interligiteco
- Finnish: yhteys
- French: connexion
- Hebrew: קישור (qishur) ; חיבור (khibur)
- Japanese: 連結 (れんけつ, renketsu), 結合 (けつごう, ketsugō)
- Kurdish:
- Spanish: vinculación , conexión
- Telugu: సంధానం
point at which two or more things are joined
- Dutch: verbinding , connectie
- Esperanto: kunligo, interligiteco
- Finnish: yhteys
- French: connexion
- German: Verbindung
- Hebrew: קשר (qesher) (the result of connecting, a link between connected people or things)
- Russian: связь , соединение
- Spanish: conexión
feeling of understanding and ease of
communication between two or more people
an established telephone call
- Dutch: verbinding
- Esperanto: konekto, komunikiĝo
- Finnish: yhteys
- German: Verbindung
- Japanese: 連絡 (れんらく, renraku)
- Russian: телефонная связь
- Spanish: llamada
- Swedish: förbindelse
Extensive Definition
Connection, Connected, Connectivity, or Connexion
may refer to:
- Connected (Stereo MC's album) is a 1992 album by the Stereo MC's
- "Connected" (Stereo MCs song) is a 1992 song by the Stereo MC's
- Connected (Foreign Exchange album) is an album by The Foreign Exchange
- "Connected" (Ayumi Hamasaki song), a song by Ayumi Hamasaki.
- "Connected" (RBD song), a song by RBD.
- "Connection" (Elastica song), a song released by the britpop group Elastica
- "Connection (Rolling Stones song)", a song by the Rolling Stones.
- Connection (dance), the primary means of communication between the lead and follow
- "Connection", a song by Avail from their 1992 album Satiate
- Connect Music Festival, which is held in Inverary, Scotland
- Connected category, a category in which, for every two objects, there is at least one morphism connecting them
- Connected space, a topological space which cannot be written as the disjoint union of two or more nonempty open spaces
- Connected sum
- Connection (mathematics), a way of specifying a derivative of a vector field along another vector field on a manifold
- Levi-Civita connection, used in general relativity
- Connectedness, in mathematics, a property of a topological space, graph or category (with different meanings)
- Connectivity (computer science)
- Connectivity (graph theory)
- The effect of a fastener
- Connections (game)
- Database Connection
- Electrical connection, allows the flow of electrons
- Interconnectivity, in science, the redundant interaction of many small parts to form a greater whole.
- Landscape connectivity
- Telecommunication circuit, the complete path between two terminals
- Connections (The Entertainment Technology Magazine)
- [[Connectivity-A Ferdism flooring term to explain how one floor transitions to another, See also green mango diet; and how long toenails cause gout]]*Sportsnet Connected, a sports news program that airs in Canada
- The Yogurt Connection, a drug ring
- Connect Yorkshire, a not-for-profit business network.
Connections may refer to:
- Connections (journal), a military/defense periodical
- Connections (TV series), James Burke's documentary television series
- Connections (game show), a British game show of the 1980s
- Connections Academy, a free public school that students attend from home
Connexion or Connexxion may refer to:
- Connexion (religion), a circuit of prayer groups who would employ travelling ministers
- Connexion by Boeing
- Connexxion, the largest public transport bus company in the Netherlands
- PhyQuest Connexion, a risk-reduction system
Connect may refer to:
- Connect (trade union) A Union for technology workers in the UK
- Sony Connect, an online music store
- Microsoft Connect
Connected may refer to:
- Connected, 2007 comedy televisions series
See also
connection in Chuvash: Çыхăну
connection in Danish: Forbindelse
connection in German: Anschluss
connection in French: Connexion
connection in Hungarian: Kapcsolat
connection in Dutch: Aansluiting
connection in Russian: Связь
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
ESP,
Indian file, abutment,
abuttal, access, accord, accounting for, acquaintance, act of love,
addition, adjacency, adjoiningness, adjunct, adultery, affairs, affiliation, affinity, agent, agglomeration, agglutination, aggregation, agnation, aisle, alley, alliance, ally, ambulatory, ancestry, ankle, answer, answerability, aperture, aphrodisia, applicability, application, appointment, appositeness, apposition, appropriateness,
approximation,
appulse, arbitrator, arcade, array, arrogation, artery, articulation, ascription, ass, assemblage, assignation, assignment, association, attachment, attribution, avenue, balling, bank, bearing, berth, billet, blame, blood, blood relationship,
bond, boundary, bracketing, broker, brotherhood, brothership, butt, buzz, carnal knowledge, catena, catenation, cervix, chain, chain reaction, chaining, channel, charge, church, climax, clinch, cloister, closeness, closure, clustering, cognation, cohabitation, coherence, coition, coitus, coitus interruptus,
colonnade, combination, commerce, common ancestry,
common descent, communication, communion, concatenation, concern, concernment, concourse, concurrence, conduit, confluence, congeries, conglomeration, congress, conjugation, conjunction, connectedness, connecting, connecting link,
connecting rod, connection with, connections, consanguinity, consecution, consecutiveness,
consistency,
contact, conterminousness,
contiguity, continuity, continuum, contrariety, convergence, conversation, converse, copula, copulation, correlation, correspondence, corridor, coterminousness,
coupling, course, cousinhood, cousinship, covered way,
credit, creed, cult, cycle, dealing, dealings, deduction, defile, denomination, deputy, derivation from, descent, diddling, disjunction, distributor, dovetail, drag, drone, elbow, embrace, enation, endless belt, endless
round, etiology,
exchange, exit, faith, family, family connection,
fatherhood, ferry, file, filiation, ford, fornication, fraternity, friend at court,
front, front man, gallery, gamut, gathering, germaneness, gliding joint,
go-between, gradation,
hinge, hinged joint,
hip, homology, honor, hookup, hum, imputation, influence, information, inlet, interaction, interagent, interceder, intercessor, interchange, intercommunication,
intercommunion,
intercourse,
interest, interface, interlinking, intermediary, intermediate, intermediate
agent, intermediator, intermedium, internuncio, interplay, interpleader, interrelationship,
intersection,
intervener, interventor, intimacy, job, jobber, join, joinder, joining, joint, jointure, junction, juncture, juxtaposition, kin, kindred, kinship, kith and kin, knee, knotting, knuckle, lane, liaison, line, lineage, linguistic intercourse,
link, linkage, linking, lovemaking, making it with,
marital affinity, marital relations, marriage, marriage act,
marriage connection, marriage relationship, materiality, maternity, mating, matrilineage, matriliny, matrisib, matrocliny, meat, mediary, mediator, medium, meeting, merger, merging, message, middleman, miter, monotone, mortise, motherhood, mouthpiece, mutual
attraction, nearness,
neck, negotiant, negotiator, negotiatress, negotiatrix, nexus, office, ombudsman, onanism, opening, orderliness, orgasm, outlet, overpass, ovum, pairing, palaetiology, pareunia, partnership, pass, passage, passageway, paternity, patrilineage, patriliny, patrisib, patrocliny, pendulum, perigee, perihelion, periodicity, persuasion, pertinence, pivot, pivot joint, place, placement, plenum, portico, position, post, powder train, procreation, progression, propinquity, proximity, pull, queue, rabbet, railroad tunnel, range, rank, rapport, recurrence, reference, reference to,
regard, relatedness, relation, relations, relationship, relatives, relevance, reply, respect, response, responsibility, reticulation, rotation, round, routine, row, run, saddling, scale, scarf, screwing, seam, sect, sequence, series, sex, sex act, sexual climax, sexual
commerce, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relations,
sexual union, shoulder,
sibship, similarity, single file,
sisterhood, sistership, situation, sleeping with,
social intercourse, speaking, spectrum, speech, speech circuit, speech
situation, sperm, splice, spokesman, spokeswoman, spot, stitch, string, succession, suture, swath, symbiosis, sympathy, symphysis, syzygy, talking, telepathy, thread, tie, tie rod, tie-in, tie-up,
tier, ties of blood,
togetherness,
toggle, toggle joint,
touch, traffic, train, traject, trajet, truck, tunnel, two-way communication,
underpass, unification, union, uniting, venery, weld, wholesaler, windrow, wrist, yoking