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star connection

British

noun

a connection used in a polyphase electrical device or system of devices in which the windings each have one end connected to a common junction, the star point , and the other end to a separate terminal See also Y connection Compare delta connection

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That brings up an actual connection between savers’ cash and their fondness for stocks.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

European prosecutors say the suspects, most of whom appear to have no actual connection to farming, "allegedly inflated livestock numbers to increase their subsidy entitlements".

From Barron's • Oct. 23, 2025

It is not clear what the actual connection between Baldwin and Strangis — if at all — is.

From Fox News • Mar. 21, 2022

They must compare the pattern of disease in outbreaks to the genetic sequences and sorting out whether there is an actual connection can take time.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 26, 2021

Connection of thought, even though purely fortuitous, is taken to indicate actual connection of the things represented in thought.

From The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology by Hartland, Edwin Sidney

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