Connection

Connect, connection, connections, connected, or connectivity may refer to:

Mathematics

• Connection (mathematics), a way of specifying a derivative of a geometrical object along a vector field on a manifold
  • Levi-Civita connection, used in differential geometry and general relativity; differentiates a vector field along another vector field
  • Connection (vector bundle), differentiates a section of a vector bundle along a vector field
  • Connection form, a manner of specifying a connection using differential forms
  • Connection (principal bundle), gives the derivative of a section of a principle bundle
  • Ehresmann connection, gives a manner for differentiating sections of a general fibre bundle
  • Cartan connection, achieved by identifying tangent spaces with the tangent space of a certain model Klein geometry
• Connectedness, a property of topological space, graph or category (with different meanings)
  • Connected category, a category for which, for every two objects, there is at least one morphism connecting them
  • Connected space, a topological space which cannot be written as the disjoint union of two or more nonempty open spaces
  • Connectivity (graph theory)
  • Pixel connectivity
  • Connected sum
• Galois connection, a type of correspondence between two partially ordered sets
• Connection (algebraic framework)

Technology

• The effect of a fastener
• Electrical connection, allows the flow of electrons
• Interconnectivity, the redundant interaction of many small parts to form a greater whole
• Landscape connectivity
• Telecommunication circuit, the complete path between two terminals
• Computer network connections:
  • Database connection
  • Virtual circuit or connection
  • Connection-oriented
  • Connectionless-mode transmission
• Connect (trade union), a union for technology workers in the United Kingdom
• Connect (users group), the worldwide users group for Hewlett-Packard
• Connectivity, a parameter describing the topology of porous media
• To make a connection, oil drilling lingo: "to add an additional segment of drill pipe"
• Connected, a software product from Iron Mountain Incorporated for computer data backup and archiving
• connect() a function provided by the Berkeley sockets API
• Kinect controller for Xbox

Media

• Connect with Mark Kelley, a Canadian news talk show
• Sportsnet Connected, a sports news program that airs in Canada
• Connections (journal), a military/defense periodical
• Connections (TV series), James Burke's documentary television series
• The Connection (radio program), former Boston public radio call-in program
• Connections (Canadian documentary), a documentary on organized crime in Canada
• Connections (game show), a British game show of the 1980s
• Connected (film), a 2008 Hong Kong remake of the American movie Cellular
• Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death & Technology, a 2011 documentary film

Music

• "Connected" (Ayumi Hamasaki song)
• "Connection" (Elastica song), 1994
• Connected (The Foreign Exchange album)
• "Connected" (Hoobastank song)
• "Connected" (RBD song)
• "Connection" (The Rolling Stones song), 1967
• Connected (Stereo MCs album), 1992
• "Connected" (Stereo MCs song)
• "Connection", a song by Can on the 1976 album Unlimited Edition
• "Connection", a song by Avail from their album Satiate
• Connect Music Festival, held in Inveraray, Scotland
• Sony Connect, an online music store
• ReConnected, British boyband previously part of Connected
• Myles and Connor, British duo previously part of Connected
• Connection (EP), a split EP by Home Grown and Limbeck
• "Reconnect" (song), the debut single of Irish art rock quartet, Director

Other uses

• Connect (trade union), a British trade union for communications industry workers
• Connections Academy, a free public school that students attend from home
• Connection (dance), the primary means of communication between the lead and the follow
• Connect (game)

See also

• CONNECT (disambiguation)
• Connectionalism
• Connexion (disambiguation)
• Contiguity
• Kinect
• Link (disambiguation)
• Musical form
• Permeability (spatial and transport planning)
• Rapport
• Six degrees of separation