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Definition: Connection |
ConnectionNoun1. A relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it); "there was a connection between eating that pickle and having that nightmare". 2. The state of being connected; "the connection between church and state is inescapable". 3. An instrumentality that connects; "he soldered the connection"; "he didn't have the right connector between the amplifier and the speakers". 4. (usually plural) a person who is influential and to whom you are connected in some way (as by family or friendship); "he has powerful connections". 5. The process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination; "conditioning is a form of learning by association". 6. A connecting shape. 7. A supplier (especially of narcotics). 8. Shifting from one form of transportation to another; "the plane was late and he missed his connection in Atlanta". 9. The act of bringing two things into contact; "the joining of hands around the table". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "connection" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Note: Connection \Con*nec"tion\, noun. [Compare to Connexion.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | A mechanism that enables interaction among modules, particularly procedure calls to asynchronous procedures. Source: European Union. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | An association established between functional units for conveying information ; the established path between two or more terminal installations. It is a permanent connection when it is established without using switching facilities, and a temporary connection when it is established by using switching facilities. It may consist of one or more channels in tandem. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A physical interface between conductors and/or contacts to provide an electrical path. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| The mode of connecting conductors or devices. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| The junction between conductors. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| A particular system connection used for a given semiconductor device. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mathematics | Used in Italian(connessione)to denote statistical relationship or dependence in the widest sense. Source: European Union. (references) |
Post & Telecom | An association between one source MAC multi-bearer control(MBC)entity and one destination MAC MBC entity. This provides a set of related MAC services(a set of logical channels), and it can involve one or more underlying MAC bearers. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The connecting circuit between selectors of different rank in an automatic exchange, or two parts of a manual exchange. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Stations in telegraphic connection and the channels which connect them. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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In mathematics, the term connected is used for:In differential geometry, a connection is a locally-defined structure used in the study of parallel transport, curvature, and covariant differentiation.
- a certain class of topological spaces (see connected space)
- a certain class of graphs and digraphs (see graph theory)
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The term Connection has various uses, for example:
- 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 connectionss 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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Connection is essential to all partner dancing. In Lindy Hop, Balboa, East Coast Swing, West Coast Swing, and all other styles of partner dance, connection is the primary means of communication between the lead and follow. Other forms of communication, such as visual cues, are often considered to spoil the dance.Following and leading is accomplished by maintaining a physical connection called the frame that allows the lead to transmit body movement to the follow, and for the follow to suggest ideas to the lead.
Connection occurs in both open and closed body positions.
In closed position with body contact, connection is achieved through maintenance of the frame. The follow moves to match the lead, maintaining the pressure between the two bodies as well as the position. The hands are secondary, even unnecessary.
In an open position or a closed position without body contact, the hands and arms provide the connection, which may be one of three forms: tension, compression or neutral.
During tension, the dancers are pulling away from each other with an equal and opposite force. The arms do not provide this force: this is provided by tension in trunk musculature, through body weight or by momentum.
During compression, the dancers are pushing together. In a neutral position, the hands do not impart any force other than the weight of the follow's hands in the lead's.
In the swing dances only, tension and compression may be maintained for a significant period of time. In other dances, such as Latin, tension and compression are indications of upcoming movement. However, in both styles, tension and compression does not signal immediate movement: the follow must be careful not to move until actual movement by the lead. Until then, the dancers must match pressures without moving their hands. In some styles of Lindy Hop, the tension may become quite high without initiating movement.
The general rule for open connections is that the hands maintain the same position with respect to the body. The only way to move the hands back, forth, left or right is to move the entire body. Tensing the muscles and locking the arm achieves this effect but is neither comfortable nor correct. Such tension eliminates the subtler communication in the connection, and eliminates free movement up and down, such as is required to initiate many turns.
This rule is often broken, especially by the lead. However, the spirit of this rule is maintained consistently.
Instead of tensing the arms, connection is achieved by engaging the shoulder, upper body and torso muscles. Movement originates in the body's core. A leader leads by moving himself and maintaining frame and connection: he does not push or pull the follow.
The connection between two partners has a different feel in every dance and with every partner. Good social dancers adapt to the conventions of the dance and the responses of their partners.
See Also
- Frame
- Dance move
- Lead and follow
- Musicality
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In differential geometry, a connection can either refer to a connection over a vector bundle or a connection over a principal bundle.See connection (vector bundle) and connection (principal bundle) for details.
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In differential geometry, connection (spelt as connexion by the British) is a way of specifying covariant differentiation on a manifold. The theory of connections leads to invariants of curvature, and the so-called torsion.In one particular approach, a connection is a Lie algebra valued 1-form which is the multiplant of the difference between the covariant derivative and the ordinary partial derivative. That is, partial derivatives are not an intrinsic notion on a manifold: a connection 'fixes up' the concept and permits discussion in geometric terms. Connections give rise to parallel transport.
There are quite a number of possible approaches to the connection concept. They include the following:
The connections referred to above are linear or affine connections. There is also a concept of projective connection; the most commonly met form of this is the Schwarzian derivative in complex analysis.
- A rather direct module-style approach to covariant differentiation, stating the conditions allowing vector fields to act on vector bundle sections.
- Traditional index notation specifies the connection by components (three indices, but this is not a tensor).
- In Riemannian geometry there is a way of deriving a connection from the metric tensor (Levi-Civita connection).
- Using principal bundles and Lie algebra-valued differential forms (see Cartan formalism, vierbein).
- The most abstract approach may that suggested by Alexander Grothendieck, where a connection is seen as descent data from infinitesimal neighbourhoods of the diagonal.
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An electrical connection between discrete points allows the flow of electrons, (current). A pair of connections is needed for a circuit.
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An electrical connector is a device for joining electrical circuits together. In computing it can also be known as a physical interface.
See also plug, jack (connector).
Usually made up of a plug (male) and a socket (female), although hermaphroditic connectors exist, such as the original IBM Token Ring LAN connector.
- RF connector
- Audio connector
- Computer connector
- Power connector
- RJ-XX connector
IBM 4-conductor hermaphrodite connector for token-ring attachment
Detail of mating surfaces of hermaphrodite connectorSource: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Electrical connector."
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Rapport is one of the most important features or characteristics of human interaction. It is commonality of perspective, being in "sync", being on the same wavelength as the person you are talking to.Achieving rapport with someone may come naturally, but it may not. There may be good chemistry, there may not. If you are having difficulty, then the way to establish rapport is to enter the world view of the other person, to accept their view of the world. Moreover there are subtle techniques you can use such as matching body posture, maintaining eye contact and matching breathing rhythm. Some of these techniques are explored in neurolinguistic programming, a branch of psychology. If rapport is established, then instead of being out of step with the other person, you are in step. You find that you have built a foundation for a more effective give-and-take relationship. Your point of view receives more generous consideration.
A classic if unusual example of rapport can be found in the book "Uncommon Therapy" by Jay Haley (ISBN 0393310310), about the psychotherapeutic intervention techniques of Milton Erickson. Erickson developed the ability to enter the world view of his patients and, from that vantage point (having established rapport), he was able to make extremely effective interventions (to help his patients overcome life problems).
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Rapport."
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A telecommunication circuit is defined as follows:
Source: from Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188
- The complete path between two terminals over which one-way or two-way communications may be provided. See communications protocol.
- An electronic path between two or more points, capable of providing a number of channels.
- A number of conductors connected together for the purpose of carrying an electric current.
- An electronic closed-loop path among two or more points used for signal transfer.
- A number of electrical components, such as resistors, inductances, capacitors, transistors, and power sources connected together in one or more closed loops.
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The umbilicus, also called the navel, is essentially a scar representing the former attachment of the umbilical cord in the fetus. The colloquial term for navel is belly button. It can form a depression, a type of umbilicus commonly referred to as an innie, or a protrusion, referred to as an outie. The underlying abdominal muscle layer also presents a concavity; its thinness at this point contributes to a relative structural weakness that makes it susceptible to hernia.One fashion is clothing that leaves part of the lower abdomen with the belly button bare. It is much more common for women than for men. Displaying a bare navel has been a taboo in Western society, as the depression of the navel is taken to be an erotic visual echo. Thus, fashions of display have usually been confined to women and have been perceived as part of liberation and youth movements.
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| CO | English | Connection mode | N/A |
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Synonyms: ConnectionSynonyms: association (n), connectedness (n), connecter (n), connective (n), connector (n), connexion (n), joining (n), link (n). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: disjunction (n), unconnectedness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Coherence | Noun: coherence, adherence, adhesion, adhesiveness; concretion accretion; conglutination, agglutination, agglomeration; aggregation; consolidation, set, cementation; sticking, soldering; Verb: connection; dependence. |
Connection | Noun: vinculum, link; connective, connection; junction; bond of union, copula, hyphen, intermedium; bracket; bridge, stepping-stone, isthmus. |
Consanguinity | Noun: consanguinity, relationship, kindred, blood; parentage; (paternity); filiation, affiliation; lineage, agnation, connection, alliance; family connection, family tie; ties of blood; nepotism. |
Kinsman, kinfolk; kith and kin; relation, relative; connection; sibling, sib; next of kin; uncle, aunt, nephew, niece; cousin, cousin-german; first cousin, second cousin; cousin once removed, cousin twice; removed; near relation, distant relation; brother, sister, one's own flesh and blood. | |
Correlation | Noun: reciprocalness; Adjective: reciprocity, reciprocation; mutuality, correlation, interdependence, interrelation, connection, link, association; interchange; exchange, barter. |
Junction | Noun: junction; joining; Verb: joinder, union connection, conjunction, conjugation; annexion, annexation, annexment; astriction, attachment, compagination, vincture, ligation, alligation; accouplement; marriage; (wedlock,); infibulation, inosculation, symphysis, anastomosis, confluence, communication, concatenation; meeting, reunion; assemblage. |
Relation | Thereof; as to, as for, as respects, as regards; about; concerning; Verb: anent; relating to, as relates to; with relation, with reference to, with respect to,with regard to; in respect of; while speaking of, a propos of; in connection with; by the way, by the by; whereas; for as much as, in as much as; in point of, as far as; on the part of, on the score of; quoad hoc; pro re nata; under the head of; (class) of; in the matter of, in re. |
Noun: relation, bearing, reference, connection, concern,. cognation; correlation; analogy; similarity; affinity, homology, alliance, homogeneity, association; approximation; (nearness); filiation; (consanguinity); interest; relevancy; dependency, relationship, relative position. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Connection |
| English words defined with "connection": In this connection. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "connection": Connection Machine LISP ♦ Data Link Connection Identifier, delta connection, Direct Connection ♦ hypothetical reference connection ♦ intercon- nected star connection ♦ non-uniform connection ♦ owner of a network connection ♦ Permanent Virtual Connection ♦ Single Connection Attach, switched virtual connection ♦ telegraph connection ♦ virtual connection ♦ water supply connection ♦ zigzag connection, zig-zag connection. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "connection": Epiploce. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | She threatened me and I patronized her and we didn't have anything to eat, but I thought there was a connection. She didn't say anything about me (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin.) I don't see any connection to Vietnam, Walter (The Big Lebowski; writing credit: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen) Say, Jack, when I said 'Take care of the business or the business will take care of you', did we have a bad connection on the cell, or maybe you weren't listening (Get Carter; writing credit: David McKenna) It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun, or that death could arrive this same afternoon - this afternoon which is so certain, and which has every hour filled in advance (Final Destination; writing credit: Glen Morgan) She'll provide a connection to the world (Angel; writing credit: LetÃcia Dornelles) | |
Lyrics | The connection was the prime suspect (Murder Murder (Remix) *; performing artist: Eminem) Maybe my connection is tired of taken chances (Twilight Zone; performing artist: Golden Earring) Make a connection (Wrong Impression; performing artist: Natalie Imbruglia) I feel a mad connection (Shake your Bon-Bon; performing artist: Ricky Martin) There's no connection to myself (Zero; performing artist: The smashing pumpkins) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Black Connection (1974) Gidget Makes the Wrong Connection (1972) The French Connection (1971) Make the Connection (1955) Kebab Connection (2002) | |
Song Titles | Rainbow Connection (performing artist: Kermit the Frog) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Discovery External Tank Connection Check. Credit: NASA. |  | Photographed circa 1946. This view was released on 17 May 1946, in connection with the ship's role as "floating press headquarters" for the Bikini atomic bomb tests. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Moored at Morotai in October 1944, while supporting seaplane operations there in connection with the Leyte invasion. Note aircraft rescue boats tied up alongside Tangier, and OS2U floatplanes on both ships' seaplane decks. Credit: NAVY. |  | United States sailors from gunboat Dubuque carrying the body of James Wilson, signer of the Declaration of Independence ... in connection with public burial in Philadelphia. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller and his daughter, Mrs. Mary Strawbridge, at Hollandia's Sentani Airfield, Nov. 26, 1961, for a conference in connection with the search for Michael Rockefeller, Gov. Rockefeller's son, who has been missing in southern New Guinea. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | War production drive poster. "Invitation to a Hanging." The front cover of the "Invitation to a Hanging" of effigies at the Wallace Silversmiths plant in connection with the war production drive. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Camp manager, right, and engineer, left, check electrical connection. Mobil unit, FSA (Farm Security Administration) labor camp. Nampa, Idaho. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Chinese technical experts in Washington in connection with the UNRRA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) training program at a conference with C.L. Moffatt (at extreme right, dark suit, handkerchief in breast pocket) , discuss flood. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The Osage Council, with other Osage Indians, who came to Washington in connection with gas and mineral rights on the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells, Assistant Commissioner E.B. Meritt and Superintendent of the Osage Na. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Apache" by Jelle W Commentary: "This is an American Army AH-64 Apache landing in Bosnia on a dutch militairy base. The original size is 1280 X 960. As goes for all pics bad Internet connection don't have to much patience, sorry. Mail me if you use it." | "USB Cable End" by Conor Tapp Commentary: "The USB end of a Canon S230's connection." |
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 | Sound of person hanging up on the other end of the telephone connection. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Bill Hicks | Supreme Court says pornography is anything without artistic merit that causes sexual thought, that's their definition, essentially. No artistic merit, causes sexual thought. Hmm. Sounds like...every commercial on television, doesn't it? You know, when I see those two twins on that Doublemint commercial? I'm not thinking of gum. I am thinking of chewing, maybe that's the connection they're trying to make. What? You've all seen that Busch beer commercial, where the girl in the short hot pants opens the beer bottle on her belt buckle, leaves it there, and it foams over her hand and over the bottle and the voice over goes, "Get yourself a BUSCH." Hmm. You know what that looks like, nah, no way. |
Charles E. Norton | It is perhaps the highest distinction of the Greeks that they recognized the indissoluble connection of beauty and goodness. |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it. |
John Paul Jones | I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way. |
Louis Agassiz | Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
US Declaration of Independence | 1776 | We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | No export or import duties shall be imposed upon upon them in this connection. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Nevertheless, this very sentiment is an evidence that the connection, which has become an unhealthy one, should at least be severed |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Perhaps there was some connection between this waggon and the prowler |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Men ate what they had not raised, had no connection with the bread |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Free radicals may also have a connection with beta amyloid. (references) | |
The connection between celiac and these diseases may be genetic. (references) | ||
The exact connection between these substances and cluster attacks is not known. (references) | ||
Business | Many small retailers are offering a time-based dial-up connection. (references) | |
Other alternatives are GSM, wireless connection and the cable TV infrastructure. (references) | ||
This holds true for rural areas where grid connection is comparatively expensive. (references) | ||
Children | Lithuania | In December "a punishment cell" was eliminated in one of these care houses, and a psychologist's post and a relaxation room were set up. Child abuse in connection with alcohol abuse by parents also was a serious problem. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Ethiopia | Board members denied any connection to the OLF. (references) |
India | Thirteen persons were charged in connection with Selvaraj's killing. (references) | |
Economic History | Libya | The court also established a connection to the Libyan Government. (references) |
Ukraine | The most troublesome were in connection with land and construction. (references) | |
Mexico | Forestry is an important activity in connection with the paper industry. (references) | |
Human Rights | Bangladesh | No policemen were charged in connection with the incident. (references) |
Sri Lanka | There have been no arrests in connection with this killing. (references) | |
Nepal | One person has been jailed in connection with the case, two others have absconded. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Venezuela | As of August, two persons had been arrested in connection with the killings. (references) |
Mexico | Six persons were detained in connection with the May 1999 attack on indigenous rights leader Heriberto Pazos Ortiz in Oaxaca; two persons were released by "amparo," and four remained in custody at year's end. (references) | |
Venezuela | In 1996 a number of human rights organizations, acting on behalf of the Yanomami community of Haximu, petitioned the IACHR in connection with the 1993 massacre of 16 members of the community by Brazilian miners. (references) | |
Minorities | Lebanon | No one had been arrested in connection with either crime by year's end. (references) |
Bangladesh | Two professors at the same college were arrested in connection with the murder. (references) | |
Indonesia | Police accused 13 persons whom police arrested in September in connection with a mall bombing. (references) | |
Political Economy | FINLAND | The Finnish service sector is undergoing considerable liberalization in connection with EU membership. (references) |
THAILAND | Import Licenses: Thailand has committed to changing its import licensing procedures in connection with its WTO obligations. (references) | |
GHANA | Ghana has not been identified as a priority country in connection with either the Special 301 Watch List or Priority Watch List. (references) | |
Trade | Slovak Rep | Customs Duties, taxes and other charges collected in connection with importation of goods. (references) |
Saudi Arabia | This is particularly important in connection with Saudi Arabia's bid to accede to the WTO. (references) | |
Saudi Arabia | Several of these issues are being taken up in connection with Saudi Arabia's application to become a member of the WTO. (references) | |
Travel | Qatar | Qatar's only foreign road connection is with Saudi Arabia. (references) |
Oman | CompuServe access remains available via a British Telephone/MCI connection. (references) | |
Vietnam | Internet cost is extremely high and the speed and reliability of the connection is extremely low. (references) | |
Women | South Africa | Recent studies have shown a connection between women and the likelihood of poverty. (references) |
Hong Kong | The press carries occasional stories of women alleging discrimination in the workplace in connection with pregnancies. (references) | |
Lithuania | Violence against women, particularly domestic violence, reportedly is common, especially in connection with alcohol abuse by husbands. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Madagascar | No local arrests or convictions have been made in connection with trafficking. (references) |
India | Seven criminal cases have been brought against OFL in connection with the accidents. (references) | |
Belarus | Several BFTU activists were dismissed by MAZ management in connection with their union activities. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ENTHUSIASM, n. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. Byron, who recovered long enough to call it "entuzy-muzy," had a relapse, which carried him off -- to Missolonghi. |
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Rush Limbaugh | Micah Morrison's huge piece in Thursday's Wall Street Journal covers a lot of the ground Gertz first strode over on the Iraq-Oklahoma City connection. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John Adams | 1797-1801 | In connection with a navy ought to be contemplated the fortification of some of our principal sea ports and harbors. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | The colonies will in that event become independent states, free from any obligation to or connection with us which it may not then be their interest to form on the basis of a fair reciprocity. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Even that alternative was not spoken of but in connection with an amendment of the Constitution. |
James K. Polk | 1845-1849 | Any culpable failure or delay on their part to account for the moneys entrusted to them at the times and in the manner required by law will in every instance terminate the official connection of such defaulting officer with the Government. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | I have learned that this plane, without arms or photographic equipment, was engaged in an air-sampling mission in connection with your nuclear tests. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Nixon, in connection with this policy of continuing the surtax for the time being. |
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| "Connection" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.94% of the time. "Connection" is used about 3,494 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.94% | 3,492 | 2,779 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.06% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3,494 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| South Africa | Connection Group Holdings Limited | United Kingdom | French Connection Group plc |
| USA | Freight Connection, Inc. (The) | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "connection": a distant connection ♦ a firm with a good connection ♦ bank connection ♦ be a connection ♦ boat connection ♦ break off a connection ♦ break one's connection with ♦ bridge connection ♦ bus connection ♦ business connection ♦ cable end connection ♦ cascade connection ♦ causal connection ♦ Christian Connection ♦ concatenated connection ♦ connection activation unit ♦ connection allotter ♦ connection bar ♦ connection box ♦ connection charge ♦ connection machine ♦ connection Machine LISP ♦ connection random access memory ♦ connection strength ♦ Connection tissue ♦ customer access connection ♦ data Link Connection Identifier ♦ Delta connection ♦ direct Connection ♦ earth connection ♦ establish a connection with ♦ feeder connection ♦ filter wash connection ♦ ground connection ♦ hypothetical reference connection ♦ in connection with ♦ in this connection ♦ interphone connection ♦ leased connection ♦ loose connection ♦ MAC connection ♦ mains connection ♦ miss one's connection ♦ multimodal connection protection ♦ nailed connection ♦ owner of a network connection ♦ parallel connection ♦ permanent Virtual Connection ♦ Scott connection ♦ series connection ♦ single Connection Attach ♦ switched virtual connection ♦ T connection ♦ tandem connection ♦ telegraph connection ♦ telephone connection ♦ there is no connection between ♦ this is a bad connection ♦ virtual connection ♦ water connection ♦ water supply connection ♦ zigzag connection. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "connection": connection-activation, connection-mode, connection-must, connection-oriented, connection-oriented network service. | |
Ending with "connection": cross-connection, finger-connection, giga-connection, inter-connection, macro-connection, mozart-connection, plug-connection, re-connection. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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