Meaning

(uncountable) The act of connecting..

Definitions by Sense

1. (uncountable) The act of connecting.
2. The point at which two or more things are connected.
3. A physical link between two things or places.
4. A relationship or association.
5. A person or persons related to oneself, through either family or business.
6. (mathematics) 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.
7. (religion) A Methodist denomination as a whole, as opposed to its constituent churches, circuits, districts and conferences.

Example Sentences

Forster employs personal relations to emphasize the importance of connection and mutual understanding

At the town of Mendes, in the principal temple, there was a living male goat, with which, if the statement of Herodotus is to be accepted, naked female worshippers actually had carnal intercourse. Male worshippers similarly had connexion with she-goats.

the leak formed at the connection of the pipe and the boiler

the isthmus of Panama is the connection between North and South America

I have some connections in Lancashire.

I hadn't much chance of buying a practice or dropping into a partnership worth having and I jibbed at setting up in some God-forsaken backwater and slipping into middle age 'building up a connection.'

Word Forms

• connections
• connexion
• connex.

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Use connection when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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