reconnection

noun

re·​con·​nec·​tion (ˌ)rē-kə-ˈnek-shən 

plural reconnections

: the act or result of restoring a connection : the state of being reconnected

Your best bet is to arrange a utility transfer as far ahead as possible to avoid any disruption in service and the dreaded and totally avoidable reconnection fee.

—Leslie Sargent Eskildsen

His reconnection with lost family members … made him aware for the first time not only of his clan's fate in the People's Republic, but also of the distinguished part it had played during the dynastic period as well.

—Orville Schell

Examples of reconnection in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In this light, reconnection silence becomes a kind of relational shorthand. —Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025

Initially, Levitt’s ostomy was temporary, meaning her rectum was left intact for a possible future reconnection. —Tereza Shkurtaj, People.com, 13 July 2025

Despite their unconventional route to the final—returning to the villa after being previously dumped—their story of reconnection has drawn a dedicated fan base. —Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 July 2025

These events occur in the lower solar atmosphere and are driven by magnetic reconnection, a process on the sun in which oppositely charged magnetic fields meet and explosively reconfigure. —Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 11 July 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1792, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for reconnection

• circumspection
• disaffection
• disconnection
• disinfection
• dorsiflexion
• imperfection
• indirection
• insurrection
• intellection
• interjection
• intersection
• introjection