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/kəˈnɛkʃən/
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NOUN
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the act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication)
the joining of hands around the table
there was a connection via the internet - a connecting shape
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shifting from one form of transportation to another
the plane was late and he missed his connection in Atlanta -
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 -
an instrumentality that connects
he didn't have the right connector between the amplifier and the speakers
he soldered the connection -
the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination
conditioning is a form of learning by association
How To Use connexion In A Sentence
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- Our interneuronal connections in our brain, for example, process information at chemical signaling speeds of a few hundred feet per second, compared to a billion feet per second for electronics - electronics is a million times faster.
- For high-definition video, the umi needs an Internet connection that can send, or upload, data at 1.5 megabits per second, higher than that of typical DSL or cable services. Cisco Launches 'Umi' Telepresence Box To Turn TVs Into Videophones
- The three were taken into custody in connection with alleged plans to attack the US embassy in Paris.
- Aren't you a spoiled child, without the childness and the spoiling, to go and write in that plaintive, solemn way about 'help of some connexions of Jane's in Glasgow,' as if you were a desolate orphan Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
- Data costs about $0.05 per MB and it is pretty reliable and fastish I got about 380kbit/s connection speed. 2008 January « My Life in Kharkov
- Vocab from The Varieties of Religious Experience aseity the property by which a being exists of and from itself; usually used in connection to God apodictic Necessarily or demonstrably true; incontrovertible.concatenated To connect or link in a series or chain.decide Of course, I already knew the definition; it's hardly an unusual word. Archive 2005-08-01
- *Although the link between microorganisms and infection was yet to be established, the connection between pus—purulence—and sepsis, fever, and death, often arising from an abscess or wound, was well known to Bennett. The Emperor of All Maladies
- Vulnerability is not weakness, and the uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure we face every day are not optional. Our only choice is a question of engagement. Our willingness to own and engage with our vulnerability determines the depth of our courage and the clarity of our purpose; the level to which we protect ourselves from being vulnerable is a measure of our fear and disconnection. Brene Brown
- But when of a thing that is perceived in connexion with some place and time, the non-existence is perceived in connexion with some other place and time, there arises no contradiction; how then should the one cognition sublate the other? or how can it be said that of a thing absent at one time and place there is absence at other times and places also? The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48
