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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Instead, he immediately connected the violence to his broader vision of a more securitized presidential space — one built around controlled environments, physical barriers and visible protection systems.
From Salon • May 24, 2026
The new technique instead takes advantage of normal communication between WiFi routers and connected devices.
From Science Daily • May 23, 2026
His work connected "communities, farmers, food artisans, cooks, activists, and young people across the world", it added.
From BBC • May 22, 2026
“The First All-Star Game” loses steam by devoting too many pages to episodes only tangentially connected to the event.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
With All Hallows’ Eve only two days away, the omen and the arrival of the badger could certainly be connected.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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