connected
Americanadjective
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united, joined, or linked.
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having a connection.
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joined together in sequence; linked coherently.
connected ideas.
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related by family ties.
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having social or professional relationships, especially with influential or powerful persons.
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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.
adjective
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joined or linked together
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(of speech) coherent and intelligible
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logic maths (of a relation) such that either it or its converse holds between any two members of its domain
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Maiava completed 19 of his first 20 passes, picking up where he left off last week when he connected on 25 of 29 in the opener.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
Only two-thirds of people in Nepal had access to electricity in 2010, and even connected households would face power cuts for up to 16 hours a day.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
Rather than placing an entire circuit inside one cell, they engineered individual cells to serve as transistor-like components that could be connected in different arrangements.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
Meanwhile, while the actress is filming, she writes notes to her daughter to help keep them connected.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026
A small equipment capsule that was connected to Gagarin’s capsule by electrical cables had failed to separate.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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