connection.
The act of connecting.
Meaning & usage
The act of connecting.
The act of connecting. Coherence; lack of disjointedness.
The act of connecting. Sexual intercourse.
The point at which two or more things are connected.
the leak formed at the connection of the pipe and the boiler
The point at which two or more things are connected. A transfer from one transportation vehicle to another in scheduled transportation service.
The bus was late so he missed his connection at Penn Station and had to wait six hours for the next train.
A physical link between two things or places.
the isthmus of Panama is the connection between North and South America
A physical link between two things or places. An established communications or transportation link.
computers linked by a network connection
I was talking to him, but there was lightning and we lost the connection.
A relationship or association. A causal relationship between two phenomena; cause and effect.
the connection between overeating and obesity
My headache has no connection with me going out last night.
A relationship or association. A relationship between people or groups of people.
A relationship or association. A feeling of mutual understanding and ease of communication between two or more people.
As we were the only people in the room to laugh at the joke, I felt a connection between us.
A relationship or association. A contextual relationship; the commonality between two or more things.
in this connection
A person or persons related to oneself, through either family or business.
I have some connections in Lancashire.
A person or persons related to oneself, through either family or business. An acquaintance who is useful in a particular scenario, especially in a corrupt or criminal way.
A person or persons related to oneself, through either family or business. A drug dealer.
A set of sets that contains the empty set, all one-element sets for any element that is included in any of the sets, and the union of any group of sets that are elements where the intersections of those sets is non-empty.
Alternative spelling of connexion; a Methodist denomination as a whole, as opposed to its constituent churches, circuits, districts and conferences.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin nectō Latin cōnectō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin cōnexiōder. Latin connexionemder. Middle English connexiounder. English connection From Middle English conneccioun, connexioun, conneccyon, conneccion, from Latin connexionem (nominative connexio (“a conclusion, binding together”)), from connectō, an alternative spelling of cōnectō (“to bind together”), from compound of co- (“together”) and nectō (“to bind”). In American English mid-18c., spelling shifted from connexion to connection (equivalent to connect + -ion), thus making connexion British dated and connection in international use.
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