Connection

• An act of connecting two or more physical entities in a physical sense or connecting concepts in memory or imagination
  • Telecommunications circuit switching

• That which connects, relates or joins:
  • An electrical connection
  • A telecommunication circuit such as a fiber-optic connection
  • LAN, PAN, MAN, WAN and other types of synchronous or asynchronous connections between computers using OSI or other protocols
  • The property of a device enabling it to be connected may be referred to as its connectivity.
  • The connection between interacting people
  • The connection between dance partners

• That to which an entity is connected, such as
  • A business or political connection
  • A means of transport used for a second or subsequent part of a journey
  • A supplier of illegal drugs

• In mathematics
  • A topological property of certain mathematical objects, better called connectedness: see connected
  • A fundamental structure in differential geometry allowing the use of parallel transport on manifolds: see connection (mathematics), connection (fiber bundle)

• The Connexxion public transport company of the Netherlands

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