connected

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   plugged in

   first check to see whether the appliance is connected

2. 2
   adj

   wired together to an alarm system

   all the window alarms are connected

3. 3
   adj

   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.

4. 4
   adj

   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.

5. 5
   adj

   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.

   It wasn't as though there were groups of kids from mob-connected families who socialized exclusively; in fact, a consequence of growing up in a huge city like New York was that you had several groups of friends, simply due to the number and density of people.

6. 6
   adj

   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.

7. 7
   adj

   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.

8. 8
   adj

   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.