connection
IPA: kʌnˈɛkʃʌn
noun
- (uncountable) The act of connecting.
- The point at which two or more things are connected.
- A feeling of understanding and ease of communication between two or more people.
- An established communications or transportation link.
- (transport) A transfer from one transportation vehicle to another in scheduled transportation service
- A kinship relationship between people.
- An individual who is related to oneself, through either family or business.
- (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 intersections of those sets is non-empty.
- Coherence; lack of disjointedness
- (religion) The description for a Methodist denomination as a whole, as opposed to its constituent churches, circuits, districts and conferences.
- sexual intercourse
- (slang) A drug dealer.
Examples of "connection" in Sentences
- It is inefficient to disjoin the connection.
- I troubleshoot network connection problems and kill viruses for a living.
- And with books, the connection is already there, that's what makes it so hard.
- This emitter connection electrode is connected to the second zone of the diode.
- This rule now tells the device to only check TCP packets where the connection is already established.
- I don't want to route all traffic over the VPN connection, so I did not check the «Send all traffic over VPN connection» setting.
- The DSL service was down, first time in a year, and in that year I had built a fair amount of stuff on the assumption that the connection is there.
- I know the point of the torture was to produce such a connection, but it might not have been necessary to waterboard al-Libi to get him to say ’yes’ to the suggestion of the ’connection’.
- This can be a real benefit for those without a nearby wired connection, or if the connection is already being used by another device, such as a cable or satellite box or a Web-enabled Blu-ray player ..
- Sure, when the connection from the rooftop antenna is made directly into the computer everything works fine, but when the connection is then switched to the router the signal degrades and eventually dies.
- In this connection Irenæus employed the following categories: _restoring of the likeness of God in humanity_; _abolition of death_; _connection and union of man with God_; _adoption of men as sons of God and as gods_;
- Yesterday they were finishing the last 100 yards at the north end (Esquinapa) where it ties in to the already open cuota and on the south end at Rosa Morada the connection is already complete and only has orange cones blocking entry.
- But if the connection is a necessary one (and we in fact presuppose that it is), then there has to be a being which is necessarily non-malicious, necessarily infallible, and which exercizes beneficent control over natural processes and entities, and over any super - or non-natural entities.