Connexion

Definition: Connexion

Connexion

Noun

1. A connecting shape.

2. 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".

3. The process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination; "conditioning is a form of learning by association".

4. An instrumentality that connects; "he soldered the connection"; "he didn't have the right connector between the amplifier and the speakers".

5. Shifting from one form of transportation to another; "the plane was late and he missed his connection in Atlanta".

6. 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 "connexion" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1651. (references)

Etymology: Connexion \Con*nex"ion\, noun. [Latin expression connexio: compare to the French expression connexion.]. (Websters 1913)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Connexion

Crosswords: Connexion

French (conjunction, connection, port, together).

Books

• A Cousinly Connexion (reference)

• Astrologie: La Connexion Astrale (reference)

• History of the United States, Republic of the Americas: Exhibited in Connexion with it's Chronology and Progressive Geography by Means of a Series of Maps (reference)

• Introductory lecture and A discourse on the connexion between science and medicine (reference)

• Money: Its Connexion With Rising and Falling Prices (Works by and About Edwin Cannan) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• African Connexion (reference)

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Music

• British Connexion (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

This is demonstratively to reduce all to anarchy, and so effectually to dissolve the government: for laws not being made for themselves, but to be, by their execution, the bonds of the society, to keep every part of the body politic in its due place and function; when that totally ceases, the government visibly ceases, and the people become a confused multitude, without order or connexion. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

It was an unsuitable connexion, and did not produce much happiness.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "connexion": connexion allotter ♦ criminal connexion ♦ in connexion with ♦ protocole de transport orienté non connexion. Additional references.

Ending with "connexion": cross-connexion.

Albanian

të njohur (connection), pjesë bashkuese (connection), njerëz (connection, folk, people), miq (company, connection, kith), marrëdhënie (companionship, connection, intercourse, link, rapport, relation, relationship, term), lidhje telefonike (connection), lidhje (affinity, alliance, bandage, bearing, binding, bond, bracer, bracing, catena, communication, confederate, confederation, conjunction, connection, contact, cord, coupling, dressing, federation, join, joining, joint, knot, league, ligament, ligature, link, link up, linkage, nexus, rapport, regard, relation, relevance, relevancy, respect, seam, signalling, tap, tie, tie up, truss, tying), lidhës (binding, conjunctive, connection, connective, solder, syndetic, tier), kushëri (connection, country cousin, cousin, kinsman, relation), i afërm (adjacent, agnate, allied, connection, familiar, family, fellow creature, folk, kin, kindred, kinsman, neighbor, neighbour, next of kin, related, relation, relative, tribesman). (various references)

Arabic 

‏علاقات (connection, connections, dealings, intercourse), ‏رابطة (connection, ligament, nexus, relation, solder, tie), ‏أصدقاء (connection, friends), ‏إرتباط (attachment, connection, correlation, engagement, joining, liaison), ‏إتصالات (communication, connecting, connection, intercourse, relations, telecommunication), ‏جماعة (association, band, body, clan, cluster, cohort, company, connection, corporation, drove, gaggle, gang, group, horde, order, troupe), ‏شبكة (connection, drag, fillet, grid, net, network, toil, web), ‏طائفة دينية (connection, cult), ‏مركز عمل (connection), ‏علاقة (bond, connection, link, linkage, nexus, rapport, relation, relationship, relevance, respect, runner, shroud, tie), ‏وصلة (connection, joint, junction, seam), ‏وسيلة (appliance, connection, contrivance, device, engine, expedience, expediency, expedient, facility, in a way, instrument, instrumentation, intermediary, makeshift, mean, measure, modality, resource, string, tactic, twist), ‏قرن (conjugate, connection, couple, coupling, horn, joint, pairing), ‏قريب (adjacent, akin, approaching, close, cognate, connection, contiguous, impending, kin, kinsman, near, nearby, nearer, next of kin, nigh, on familiar terms, propinquity, related, relational, relative, thereabout, thereabouts), ‏نسيب (akin, cognate, connection, kinsman, on familiar terms, related, relative, sibling), ‏صلة (communication, connection, copula, link, linkage, rapport, reference, relation, relationship, tie, touch). (various references)

Bulgarian 

свързване (association, communication, concatenation, conjunction, connection, coordination, copulation, coupling, gathering, join, joining, joint, junction, juncture, linkage), роднини (connection, folks, kin, kindred, kinsfolk, kith and kin, people), клиентела (clientage, clientele, connection, custom, patronage, practice, trade), връзка (alliance, association, bond, bunch, cement, channel, communication, concatenation, connection, contact, copula, cord, coupler, intercommunication, lace, leverage, liaison, ligament, ligature, link, nexus, noose, overlay, point, reference, regard, relation, relationship, relevance, relevancy, string, tie, touch). (various references)

Chinese 

连接 (Connect, Connected, Connecting, connection, linked, Linking, Ushered, Ushering). (various references)

Czech

spojení (combination, communication, concatenation, conjunction, connection, contact, joint, junction, juncture, liaison, link, rapport, relation, union). (various references)

Danish

connexus (connected), forenet (connected), forbundet (conjugate, connected). (various references)

Dutch

connexus (connected). (various references)

Farsi 

اتصال (Coitus, Conjuncture, Contact, Continuity, Incorporation, Junction, Juncture, Linkage, Union). (various references)

French

connexion (conjunction, connection), connexe (connected), rapport (communication, connection), lien (connection). (various references)

German

connexus (connected), Verbindung (academy, affiliation, alliance, association, catenation, chaining, combination, communication, compound, conjunction, connection, contact, coupling, fusion, incorporation, intercommunication, interconnection, interface, join, joint, junction, league, liaison, line, link, link up, linkup, marriage, relation, relationship, society, splice, tie, touch, union, wedding). (various references)

Greek 

σύνδεση (attachment, conjunction, connection, coupling, hookup, junction, ligature, link up, spanning, splice, syndication, tap), συνδεδεμένος (conjugate, connected). (various references)

Hungarian

kapcsolat (acquaintanceship, affair, affiliation, articulation, association, attach, conjunction, connection, dealings, hookup, intercommunication, liaison, link, link up, linkage, linking, nexus, passages, platonics, rapport, relation, relationship), összeköttetés (command liaison, connection, drag, hook up, hook-up, intercommunication, liaison, link, link up, relations), összefüggés (coherence, coherency, concatenation, connection, consistence, consistency, context, contiguity, correlation, interdependence, interrelation, nexus, rapport, relationship). (various references)

Italian

connessione (bearing, connection, nexus), congiunzione (conjunction, connection, connective, junction). (various references)

Korean 

연결 (Concatenation, Connecting, connection, coupling, link, Linking, links). (various references)

Pig Latin

onnexioncay

Portuguese

conexão (connection, liaison, link, rapport, relation, relationship, tie-in). (various references)

Romanian

conexiune (connection, link up). (various references)

Russian 

связь (affair, band, bandage, binding, brace, catena, cement, coherence, coherency, communication, communications, connection, context, coupling, intercommunication, intercourse, joint, junction, juncture, liaison, ligament, ligature, link, linkage, nexus, rapport, relation, relations, relationship, relationships, signalling, stay). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

povezanost (coherence, coherency, connection, interconnection, relationship, series). (various references)

Spanish

conexión (bond, connection, diplomacy, hookup, joining, liaison, link, link up, linkage, plug, putting through, relation, relationship, relevance, relevancy, touch). (various references)

Swedish

samfund (academy, association, body, communion, communions, community, connection, denomination, fraternity, society), samband (bearing, concern, conjunction, connection, correlation, liaison, nexus, pertinence, relationship, tie up), kontakt (connection, contact, socket, switch, touch), knarklangare (connection, dealer, dope-peddler, dope-pusher), förhållande (behavior, behaviour, circumstances, conditions, conduct, connection, footing, liaison, love affair, proportion, ratio, relation, relations, relationship, state of affairs), förbindelse (alliance, association, bond, communication, concern, connection, contact, engagement, intercourse, junction, liaison, link, rapport, recognizance, relation, service, undertaking). (various references)

Turkish

yakınlık (adjacency, affinity, approximation, closeness, connection, contiguity, familiarity, immediacy, imminence, intimacy, kinship, nearness, propinquity, proximity, relationship, terms), yakın (adjacent, akin, akin to, approximate, at hand, by, close, close to, close-rage, connate, connected, connection, contiguous, convenient, familiar, handy, hard, hard by, immediate, imminent, inseparable, intimate, near, near at hand, nigh, not far, pending, proximate, relative, thick, within reach, within walking distance), ilişki (affair, affaire, affinity, bond, commerce, connection, contact, copulation, corelate, correlate, correlation, daughter, dealing, dealings, gallantry, intercourse, interrelation, involvement, it, liaison, noose, rapport, reference, regard, relation, relationship, relevance, relevancy, sexual intercourse, truck), ilgi (affinity, attachment, attention, bearing, care, concern, connection, curiosity, interest, involvement, liking, pertinence, reference, regard, relation, relationship, relativeness, relevance, relevancy, respect, solicitude, sympathies, sympathy, thought), dost (ally, associate, bean, bedfellow, brother, Comrade, connection, crony, fellow, forthcoming, friend, lover, pal, pard), bağlantı (channel, commitment, communication, concern, connecting, connection, contact, contact man, coordination, coupling, dealings, header, hookup, intercourse, liaison, link, linkage, linkup, noose, relation, tap, tie, tie in, tie up), bağ (alliance, bandage, beginnings, binder, bond, brace, connection, copula, copulation, cord, corelate, daughter, desmo-, fascia, fastener, fastening, header, knot, lace, league, ligament, ligature, link, linkage, linkup, nexus, noose, relation, relationship, string, tie, tie up, truss, vinculum, vine, vineyard, yoke), akraba (agnate, agnatic, akin, akin to, allied, cognate, connate, connected, connection, consanguine, flesh and blood, kin, kindred, kinsman, kinswoman, related, relative). (various references)

Ukrainian

статевий зв'язок (connection), сполучення (bandage, communication, conjugation, connection, intercommunication, juncture), рідня (affinity, alliance, connection, kin, kinfolk, sib), родич (collateral, connection, cousin, kinsman, relation, relative, sib), клі�"нтура (clientage, connection, custom), зв'язок (association, bonding, bracer, catena, chain, coherence, communication, conjunction, connection, contact, join, liaison, ligament, ligature, link, nexus, pertinence, pertinency, rapport, relationship, thread, tie). (various references)

Vietnamese 

có liên quan với (connection), sự liên quan (connectedness, connection), sự liên lạc (communion, connection), sự kết giao b� con (connection), sự chấp nối sự mạch lạc sự giao thiệp (connection), mối quan hệ (affinity, connection, nexus, relation, relationship), liên quan đến điều đó có quan hệ với (connection), họ h� ng (blood, connection, kin, relation). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "connexion": connexions. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: conine, exonic, ionone.

-4 letters: conin, ninon, nonce, onion, xenic, xenon.

-5 letters: cine, cion, coin, cone, coni, conn, coon, exon, icon, neon, nice, nine, nixe, none, noon, once, oxen.

+1 letter: connexions.