What's The Definition Of Connection?
[n] the act of bringing two things into contact; "the joining of hands around the table"
[n] shifting from one form of transportation to another; "the plane was late and he missed his connection in Atlanta"
[n] an instrumentality that connects; "he soldered the connection"; "he didn't have the right connector between the amplifier and the speakers"
[n] the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination; "conditioning is a form of learning by association"
[n] a supplier (especially of narcotics)
[n] (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"
[n] 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"
[n] a connecting shape
[n] the state of being connected; "the connection between church and state is inescapable"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Connection: association |
connectedness |
connectedness |
connecter |
connective |
connector |
connexion |
connexion |
connexion |
connexion |
connexion |
joining |
link |
link
Related Terms | Find terms related to Connection: 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 |
ESP |
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 |
Indian file |
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 |
tier |
ties of blood |
tie-up |
togetherness |
toggle |
toggle joint |
touch |
traffic |
train |
traject |
trajet |
truck |
tunnel |
two-way communication |
underpass |
unification |
union |
uniting |
venery |
weld |
wholesaler |
windrow |
wrist |
yoking
See Also | acquaintance |
adjunction |
alliance |
approximation |
articulation |
articulation |
attachment |
attachment |
bond |
bond |
bridge |
bringing close together |
change of integrity |
coherence |
coherency |
cohesion |
cohesiveness |
colligation |
coming upon |
communication |
concatenation |
concatenation |
concatenation |
conjunction |
contact |
convergence |
convergency |
converging |
conveyance |
coupling |
earth |
encounter |
fastening |
form |
friend |
ground |
hitch |
hookup |
instrumentality |
instrumentation |
interconnectedness |
interconnection |
interconnection |
intersection |
involvement |
join |
joint |
jumper |
junction |
junction |
junction |
juncture |
lifeline |
line |
linkage |
memory |
node |
patch |
phone line |
provider |
relatedness |
relation |
relevance |
relevancy |
remembering |
series |
shape |
slip ring |
supplier |
telephone line |
temporary hookup |
transfer |
transferral |
transportation |
unification |
union |
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Connection In Webster's Dictionary
\Con*nec"tion\, n. [Cf. {Connexion}.]
1. The act of connecting, or the state of being connected;
junction; union; alliance; relationship.
He [Algazel] denied the possibility of a known
connection between cause and effect. --Whewell.
The eternal and inserable connection between virtue
and hapiness. --Atterbury.
2. That which connects or joins together; bond; tie.
Any sort of connection which is perceived or
imagined between two or more things. --I. Taylor.
3. A relation; esp. a person connected with another by
marriage rather than by blood; -- used in a loose and
indefinite, and sometimes a comprehensive, sense.
4. The persons or things that are connected; as, a business
connection; the Methodist connection.
Men elevated by powerful connection. --Motley.
At the head of a strong parliamentary connection.
--Macaulay.
Whose names, forces, connections, and characters
were perfectly known to him. --Macaulay.
{In this connection}, in connection with this subject.
Note: [A phrase objected to by some writers.]
Note: This word was formerly written, as by Milton, with x
instead of t in the termination, connexion, and the
same thing is true of the kindred words inflexion,
reflexion, and the like. But the general usage at
present is to spell them connection, inflection,
reflection, etc.
Syn: Union; coherence; continuity; junction; association;
dependence; intercourse; commerce; communication;
affinity; relationship.
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