Definition of "connection"

connection

/kəˈnɛkʃən/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural connections
1. (uncountable) The act of connecting.
2. The point at which two or more things are connected.
  Quotations
  A spokesman for Lothian and Borders Police said: "We can confirm that a 15-year-old boy has been arrested and charged in connection with the murder of Jodi Jones. A 45-year-old has also been arrested in connection with allegations of attempting to pervert the course of justice. A report on this has been sent to the procurator fiscal."
  2004 April 15, “Morning swoop in hunt for Jodi's killer”, in The Scotsman‎
3. A feeling of understanding and ease of communication between two or more people.
4. An established communications or transportation link.
5. (transport) A transfer from one transportation vehicle to another in scheduled transportation service
  Quotations
  It is kept super-clean by helpful staff who still find the time to help customers with tight connections.
  2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: Eastbourne”, in RAIL, number 948, page 26
6. A kinship relationship between people.
7. An individual who is related to oneself, through either family or business.
8. (mathematics) A set of sets that contains the empty set, all one-element sets for any element that is included in any of the sets, and the union of any group of sets that are elements where the intersections of those sets is non-empty.
9. Coherence; lack of disjointedness
10. (religion) The description for a Methodist denomination as a whole, as opposed to its constituent churches, circuits, districts and conferences.
11. sexual intercourse
  Quotations
  The exact nature of the relations between the boy-wife and his protector are doubtful; they certainly have connection, but the natives repudiate with horror and disgust the idea of sodomy.
  1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 (of 6)‎
12. (slang) A drug dealer.
  Quotations
  Now the final study was the drug habit. He was now in New Orleans, slipping along the streets with shady characters and haunting connection bars.
  1957, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Viking Press