Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Joined or fastened together.
  • adjective Not decomposable into two disjoint nonempty open sets.
  • adjective Having a continuous path between any two points. Used of a curve, set, or surface.
  • adjective Related by family.
  • adjective Logically or intelligibly ordered or presented; coherent.
  • adjective Associated with or related to others, especially to influential or important people.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective p. p. of connect.
  • adjective being joined in close association.
  • adjective connected by a conductor so as to allow the flow of electric signals.
  • adjective (Music) legato.
  • adjective associated with or accompanying.
  • adjective (Computers) stored in, controlled by, or in direct communication with a central computer.
  • adjective switched on.
  • adjective having some relation.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective : Having favorable rapport with a powerful entity.
  • adjective mathematics, topology, of a topological space That cannot be partitioned into two nonempty open sets.
  • adjective mathematics, graph theory Having a path, either directed or undirected, connecting every pair of vertices.
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of connect.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective wired together to an alarm system
  • adjective being joined in close association
  • adjective plugged in
  • adjective joined or linked together
  • adjective stored in, controlled by, or in direct communication with a central computer

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Examples

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  • As most of you will know, he was called the ‘Messiah,’ a moniker that has acquired religious meaning over the years but which actually is a term connected with lineage.

    THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010

  • As most of you will know, he was called the ‘Messiah,’ a moniker that has acquired religious meaning over the years but which actually is a term connected with lineage.

    THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010

  • Some medical literature even calls the waiting area the “holding area”—a term connected to the slaughterhouse.

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  • Malkin connected from the slot through Stephan's pads at 12: 38 of the second period.

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  • And then the name connected with knowledge, a puzzle piece connecting with its mate.

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  • Mich., admits a soft spot for the title connected to his congregation's charism - St. Joseph, Patron of the Suffering and Dying.

    The Register's Daily Blog 2009

  • With Americans increasingly glued to devices and their constant flow of information, the auto makers are rolling out what they call the "connected car."

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  • This is a title connected with the Lord Jesus in relation to the earth.

    Commentary on Revelation 1837-1913 1909

  • And looking downstream as well, looking at patient monitoring, which we call connected care and making sure that we leverage the asset, which is essentially the implant that we have in a patient through the life of the patient as opposed to simply during the therapy -- during the implant procedure, it is something we're also going to look at.

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