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Connect, connection, connections, connected, or connectivity may refer to:

Mathematics

• Connection (mathematics), a way of specifying a derivative of a geometrical object along a vector field on a manifold.
  • Levi-Civita connection, used in differential geometry and general relativity; differentiates a vector field along another vector field
  • Connection (vector bundle), differentiates a section of a vector bundle along a vector field
  • Connection form, a manner of specifying a connection using differential forms
  • Connection (principal bundle), gives the derivative of a section of a principle bundle
  • Ehresmann connection, gives a manner for differentiating sections of a general fibre bundle
  • Cartan connection, achieved by identifying tangent spaces with the tangent space of a certain model Klein geometry
• Connectedness, a property of topological space, graph or category (with different meanings)
  • Connected category, a category for which, for every two objects, there is at least one morphism connecting them
  • Connected space, a topological space which cannot be written as the disjoint union of two or more nonempty open spaces
  • Connectivity (graph theory)
  • Pixel connectivity
  • Connected sum
• Galois connection, a type of correspondence between two partially ordered sets

Technology

• The effect of a fastener
• Electrical connection, allows the flow of electrons
• Interconnectivity, the redundant interaction of many small parts to form a greater whole
• Landscape connectivity
• Telecommunication circuit, the complete path between two terminals
• Computer network connections:
  • Database connection
  • Virtual circuit or connection
  • Connection-oriented
  • Connectionless-mode transmission
• Connectivity (computer science)
• Connect (trade union), a union for technology workers in the United Kingdom
• Connect (users group), the worldwide users group for Hewlett-Packard
• Connectivity, a parameter describing the topology of porous media
• To make a connection, oil drilling lingo: "to add an additional segment of drill pipe"
• Connected, a software product from Iron Mountain Incorporated for computer data backup and archiving.
• connect() a function provided by the Berkeley sockets API
• CoNNeCT - The Communications, Navigation, and Networking reConfigurable Test-bed experiment, to be launched aboard an ELC and installed in the ISS.

Media

• Sportsnet Connected, a sports news program that airs in Canada
• Connections (journal), a military/defense periodical
• Connections (TV series), James Burke's documentary television series
• Connections (Canadian documentary), a documentary on organized crime in Canada
• Connections (game show), a British game show of the 1980s
• Connected (film), a 2008 Hong Kong remake of the American movie Cellular

Music

• "Connected" (Ayumi Hamasaki song)
• "Connection" (Elastica song)
• Connected (Foreign Exchange album)
• "Connected" (Hoobastank song)
• "Connected" (RBD song)
• "Connection" (The Rolling Stones song)
• Connected (Stereo MCs album)
• "Connected" (Stereo MCs song)
• "Connection", a song by the band Can with Malcolm Mooney on vocals, which was released several years later after the recording on their album Unlimited Edition (1976)
• "Connection", a song by Avail from their album Satiate
• Connect Music Festival, held in Inveraray, Scotland
• Sony Connect, an online music store

Other uses

• Connections Academy, a free public school that students attend from home
• Connection (dance), the primary means of communication between the lead and the follow

See also

• CONNECT (disambiguation)
• Connectionalism
• Connexion (disambiguation)
• Contiguity
• Link (disambiguation)
• Musical form
• Permeability (spatial and transport planning)
• Rapport
• Six degrees of separation

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