# connected

Pronunciation: say "kuh-NEK-tid" /kəˈnɛktɪd/

## Verb

1. Past tense and past participle of connect. — simple past and past participle of connect
   - Simple: Past tense and past participle of connect. Use this form for past actions and after words like have, was, and were.
   - _The technician connected the new router in just a few minutes._
   - _Volunteers have connected hundreds of families with local food programs._

## Adjective

2. Linked to other people, places, or devices, or able to provide such links, especially through networking technology or a transportation system.
   - Simple: Linked to the internet or another network, or easy to reach by bus, train, or road.
   - _Once the laptop is connected to the office network, the shared drives appear automatically._
   - _High-speed rail has made the region one of the most connected in the country._
3. Having relationships with other people and involved in their lives; socially engaged rather than isolated.
   - Simple: Having friends and people around you instead of being alone or cut off.
   - _Volunteering keeps many retirees connected to their neighborhoods._
   - _Even after moving abroad, he stayed connected to old friends through letters and visits home._
4. Joined by bonds of affection; intimate and emotionally close to another person.
   - Simple: Feeling close to someone and caring about them deeply.
   - _Years of shared hardship left the brothers profoundly connected._
   - _She felt connected to her grandmother in a way distance could never weaken._
5. Enjoying favorable rapport with powerful or influential people or institutions, and able to call on that access.
   - Simple: Knowing important or powerful people who can help you get things done.
   - _A connected lobbyist can secure a meeting that others wait months for._
   - _The firm hired her precisely because she was connected in regulatory circles._
6. Associated with an organized crime family without being a formal member; treated as a trusted friend by full members. *(Canada, US)*
   - Simple: Friendly with members of a crime group, but not yet part of it.
   - _The contractor was connected, which explained why his bids never faced real competition._
   - _Detectives flagged him as connected after he was photographed dining with two crew bosses._
7. Having a path, either directed or undirected, between every pair of vertices in a graph.
   - Simple: Joined so that every point in a network can be reached from every other point.
   - _A spanning tree exists only if the underlying graph is connected._
   - _Adding one more edge finally made the whole network connected._
8. Incapable of being partitioned into two nonempty open sets; forming a single unbroken whole.
   - Simple: Made of one single piece, not split into separate parts.
   - _The interval from zero to one is connected, while the set of rational numbers is not._
   - _Removing one point from a circle leaves it connected, but removing two points does not._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/connected (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).