connected

adj
/kəˈnɛktɪd/

Definitions

  1. Having favorable rapport with a powerful entity.

    • Of course, he has very little money, and is rather shy in manner, but he is very well-connected.
    • In human society, there is an irreconcilable conflict between the concept of financial wellbeing of the individual and the pernicious desire for increased wealth of the politically well connected.
  2. Having relationships

    Having relationships; involved with others.

    • By his father's side Mr Trumbull was connected with one of the most honorable and conspicuous families of his native state.
    • She is descended, on the father's side, from an ancient family in Northumberland, not remotely connected with nobility ; and there is a quaint rhyme current in the north country, which promises the name a long duration.
  3. Involved with organized crime, specifically someone not (yet) working for a crime…

    Involved with organized crime, specifically someone not (yet) working for a crime organization, but referred to as a "friend" by made guys/wise guys inside the organization.

  4. + 5 more definitions
    1. Intimate

      Intimate; having bonds of affection.

      • We were sitting on his bed and I was doing a lot of mirroring and chatting and just having a very connected conversation.
      • Once again they became best friends and were very connected to each other emotionally.
      • I am very connected to this place because my Aunts are very cool, and my cousins too.
    2. That cannot be partitioned into two nonempty open sets.

      • As a combinatorial subject, the connected dominating set has been studied in as early as 1970s.
    3. Having a path, either directed or undirected, connecting every pair of vertices.

      • In a connected graph, there is no section (proper subset that includes all edges from each vertex in said subset) of the graph that is isolated from the rest.
    4. Having or supporting connections, especially when through technology such as networking…

      Having or supporting connections, especially when through technology such as networking software or a transportation network.

    5. simple past and past participle of connect

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at connected. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at connected. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at connected

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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