Main Entry: connected

Function: adjective

Date: 1712

1 : joined or linked together
2 : having the parts or elements logically linked together <presented a thoroughly connected view of the problem>
3 : related by blood or marriage
4 : having social, professional, or commercial relationships <a well-connected lawyer>
5 of a set : having the property that any two of its points can be joined by a line completely contained in the set; also : incapable of being separated into two or more closed disjoint subsets

— con·nect·ed·ly adverb

— con·nect·ed·ness noun