connected

[ kuh-nek-tid ]
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adjective
  1. united, joined, or linked.

  2. having a connection.

  1. joined together in sequence; linked coherently: connected ideas.

  2. related by family ties.

  3. having social or professional relationships, especially with influential or powerful persons.

  4. Mathematics. pertaining to a set for which no cover exists, consisting of two open sets whose intersections with the given set are disjoint and nonempty.

Origin of connected

1
First recorded in 1705–15; connect + -ed2

Other words from connected

  • con·nect·ed·ly, adverb
  • con·nect·ed·ness, noun
  • sub·con·nect·ed·ly, adverb
  • well-con·nect·ed, adjective

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British Dictionary definitions for connected

connected

/ (kəˈnɛktɪd) /


adjective
  1. joined or linked together

  2. (of speech) coherent and intelligible

  1. logic maths (of a relation) such that either it or its converse holds between any two members of its domain

Derived forms of connected

  • connectedly, adverb

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