Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The quality or condition of being connected or connective.
- noun The ability to make and maintain a connection between two or more points in a telecommunications system.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In mathematics, the order of connection.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The state of being
connected - noun telecom The
ability to make aconnection between two or morepoints in anetwork - noun countable, mathematics In a
graph , ameasure ofconcatenated adjacency (thenumber ofways that points are connected to each other)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the property of being connected or the degree to which something has connections
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Examples
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Comcast has done nothing but raise my price, and my connectivity is absolutely horrendous.
The Raging Grannies Greet the F.C.C. - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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We developed in our rooms what we call a connectivity panel, part of our television sets so you can plug in your ipod and listen to music on the speakers from the TV.
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We developed in our rooms what we call a connectivity panel, part of our television sets so you can plug in your ipod and listen to music on the speakers from the TV.
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The price of the connectivity is then shared between the users, with no extra fees.
Boing Boing: September 8, 2002 - September 14, 2002 Archives 2002
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The organisers say the event would contribute to what it called connectivity across African borders.
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Best Buy has combined several of its retail groups to into what it calls a "connectivity business group".
unknown title 2012
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Best Buy has combined several of its retail groups to into what it calls a "connectivity business group".
Forbes.com: News Elizabeth Woyke 2012
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"A key ingredient here is what we call connectivity -- does the cause the philanthropist supports have implications for other issues?"
unknown title 2009
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Presumably all this connectivity is limiting an old-fashioned kind of connectivity that used to be a hallmark of the artists colony: after-hours bedhopping, as when John Cheever — at Yaddo in 1971 — enjoyed what biographer Blake Bailey called a "satisfactory tryst with a painter exactly half his age."
Retreats Surrender to Wi-Fi Steven Kurutz 2010
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Then it explores how those devices became a source of pervasive connectedness to friends, family, lovers and co-workers -- a completely different kind of connectivity from the "other-world" internet space experienced through personal computers.
Boing Boing 2005
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