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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At any given moment, up to 2.4 million people are connected to it, according to the Twitch Tracker site, making it a culturally prominent brand.
From Barron's • May 30, 2026
The latest driver of the divergence is a generational boom buoying almost any company connected to artificial intelligence.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
Price says gardens help people slow down and feel more connected to nature: "You can see the change not only on their face, but just in the way that they breathe."
From BBC • May 29, 2026
Because the brain and spinal cord are separate but connected structures in the body, the team kept the organoids physically apart in the lab.
From Science Daily • May 29, 2026
Otherwise, everything I did was connected to Josie.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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