| connection | |
| 1. n. The act of connecting. | |
| 2. n. The point at which two or more things are connected. | |
| the connection between overeating and obesity | |
| My headache has no connection with me going out last night. | |
| 3. n. A feeling of 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. | |
| 4. n. An established communications or transportation link. | |
| computers linked by a network connection | |
| I was talking to him, but there was lightning and we lost the connection. | |
| 5. n. (transport) 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. n. A kinship relationship between people. | |
| 7. n. An individual who is related to oneself. | |
| I have some connections in Lancashire. | |
| 8. n. (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 inters | |
| 9. n. coherence; lack of disjointedness | |
