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connected

American  
[kuh-nek-tid] / kəˈnɛk tɪd /

adjective

  1. united, joined, or linked.

  2. having a connection.

  3. joined together in sequence; linked coherently.

    connected ideas.

  4. related by family ties.

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

  6. 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.

connected British  
/ kəˈnɛktɪd /

adjective

  1. joined or linked together

  2. (of speech) coherent and intelligible

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

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Other Word Forms

  • connectedly adverb
  • connectedness noun
  • subconnectedly adverb
  • well-connected adjective

Etymology

Origin of connected

First recorded in 1705–15; connect + -ed 2

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