Connection (Noun)
Meaning 1
(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".
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Nouns denoting people.
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Meaning 2
The state of being connected; "the connection between church and state is inescapable".
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Nouns denoting natural processes.
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Meaning 3
An instrumentality that connects; "he soldered the connection"; "he didn't have the right connector between the amplifier and the speakers".
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Nouns denoting man-made objects.
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Meaning 4
A connecting shape.
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Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes.
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Meaning 5
The process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination; "conditioning is a form of learning by association".
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Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.
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Meaning 6
The act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication); "the joining of hands around the table"; "there was a connection via the internet".
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Nouns denoting acts or actions.
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- Interconnection
- Approximation
- Convergency
- Concatenation
- Fastening
- Intersection
- Articulation
- Junction
- Convergence
- Encounter
- Hit
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Meaning 8
Shifting from one form of transportation to another; "the plane was late and he missed his connection in Atlanta".
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Nouns denoting acts or actions.
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Meaning 9
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".
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Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas.