Connections

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Connection, connected, connectivity, or connexion may refer to:

In mathematics:

• Connection (mathematics), a way of specifiying 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 differentating 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)
  • Connected sum
• Galois connection, a type of correspondence between two partially ordered sets

In 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 connection
  • Connection-oriented
  • Connectionless
• Connectivity (computer science)
• PhyQuest Connexion, a risk-reduction system
• Connect (trade union), a union for technology workers in the United Kingdom
• Microsoft Connect

In culture:

• Connection (dance), the primary means of communication between the lead and the follow
• Connexion (religion), a circuit of prayer groups who would employ travelling ministers
• Connections (game), a drinking game

In media:

• 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
• Connections (game show), a British game show of the 1980s
• Connected (film), a 2008 Hong Kong remake of the American movie Cellular

In music:

• Connect, a band from Zaprešić, Croatia
• Connected (Stereo MC's album)
• "Connected (Stereo MCs song)
• Connected (Foreign Exchange album)
• "Connected" (Ayumi Hamasaki song)
• "Connected" (RBD song)
• "Connection" (Elastica song)
• "Connection" (Rolling Stones song)
• "Connected" (Hoobastank song)
• "Connection", a song by Avail from their album Satiate
• Connect Music Festival, held in Inveraray, Scotland
• Sony Connect, an online music store

In transportation:

• Connexion by Boeing
• Connexxion, the largest public transport bus company in the Netherlands

Other uses:

• Connections Academy, a free public school that students attend from home
• The Yogurt Connection, a drug ring

[edit] See also

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

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