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connected, ppl. a.|kəˈnɛktɪd|
[f. connect v.]
1. Conjoined; fastened or linked together.
1712Blackmore Creation i. (R.), The waves which roll connected in their flight. 1764Goldsm. Trav. 288 Onward..The firm connected bulwark seems to grow.
2. Joined together in order or sequence (as words or ideas); hence, exhibiting proper sequence and coherence of thought.
1824L. Murray Eng. Gram. (ed. 5) I. 193 When a discourse is not well connected, the sentiments, however just, are easily forgotten. 1846Mill (title) A System of Logic..being a connected View of the Principles of Evidence. Mod. He was too much excited for connected thought.
3. Related, associated (in nature or idea).
1789Bentham Princ. Legisl. Pref., Two parallel and connected systems running on together. 1836J. Gilbert Chr. Atonem. iii. (1852) 74 It includes important associations, and suggests connected thoughts.
4. Of persons: Related by ties of family, intimacy, common aims, etc. well connected: related to persons of good position.
1818Jas. Mill Brit. India II. v. iv. 459 A closely connected friend of his own. 1840Clough Amours de Voy. i. 128 Yet they are fairly descended, they give you to know, well connected.
5. Math. and Logic. (See quots.)
1893A. R. Forsyth Theory of Functions §158 A surface is said to be connected when, from any point of it to any other point of it, a continuous line can be drawn without passing out of the surface. 1903B. Russell Princ. Math. I. xxiv. 202 We need a further condition, which may be expressed by saying that the collection must be connected... For the present we may content ourselves by saying that our collection is connected when, given any two of its terms, there is a certain finite number (not necessarily unique) of steps from one term to the next, by which we can pass from one of our two terms to the other. When this condition is fulfilled, we are assured that, of any three terms of our collection, one must be between the other two. 1918Veblen & Young Projective Geom. II. §155 A set of points is said to be connected if and only if any two points of the set are joined by a curve consisting entirely of points of the set. 1941A. Tarski Introd. Logic v. 94 If the relation R subsists between two arbitrary distinct elements of K in at least one direction, the relation is called ‘connected in the class K’. 1957P. Suppes Introd. Logic x. 216 The relation of being a mother is not connected in the set of people. |