connection

noun connections · connexion · connex.

1. uncountable The act of connecting. Forster employs personal relations to emphasize the importance of connection and mutual understanding
2. countable, uncountable Coherence; lack of disjointedness.
3. countable, euphemistic, uncountable Sexual intercourse. The exact nature of the relations between the boy-wife and his protector are doubtful; they certainly have connection, but the natives repudiate with horror and disgust the idea of sodomy.
4. countable, uncountable The point at which two or more things are connected. the leak formed at the connection of the pipe and the boiler
5. countable, uncountable 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.
6. countable, uncountable A physical link between two things or places. the isthmus of Panama is the connection between North and South America
7. countable, uncountable An established communications or transportation link. computers linked by a network connection
8. countable, uncountable A causal relationship between two phenomena; cause and effect. the connection between overeating and obesity
9. countable, uncountable A relationship between people or groups of people. These two seemed to have a closer relationship than I knew. What's their connection?

   Similar: communion

10. countable, uncountable 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.
11. countable, uncountable A contextual relationship; the commonality between two or more things. in this connection
12. countable, uncountable A person or persons related to oneself, through either family or business. I have some connections in Lancashire.
13. countable, plural normally, uncountable An acquaintance who is useful in a particular scenario, especially in a corrupt or criminal way. I have connections in the local committee. I shall bring them to bear, as long as the Council does not find fault!
14. countable, slang, uncountable A drug dealer. Now the final study was the drug habit. He was now in New Orleans, slipping along the streets with shady characters and haunting connection bars.
15. countable, uncountable 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.
16. alternative, countable, uncountable Alternative spelling of connexion; a Methodist denomination as a whole, as opposed to its constituent churches, circuits, districts and conferences.

Similar: bond, connection, connective, connexive, link, vinculum