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      connection
      noun
      A feeling of understanding and ease of communication between two or more people.
      (uncountable) The act of connecting.
      The point at which two or more things are connected.
      An established communications or transportation link.
      (transport) A transfer from one transportation vehicle to another in scheduled transportation service.
      A kinship relationship between people.
      A person related to oneself, through either family or business.
      Sexual intercourse.
      Coherence; lack of disjointedness.
      (religion) A Methodist denomination as a whole, as opposed to its constituent churches, circuits, districts and conferences.
      (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.
      (slang) A drug dealer.
      Roots
      nectonect- · Latin · bind, tie
      Synonyms for connection
      connectednessnlinknjoiningnlinkagenrelationnrelatednessnhookupnrelationshipnnexusnliaisonnkinshipn
      Words related to connection
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