Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - connected

 adjective  Date: 1712  1. joined or linked together  2. having the parts or elements logically linked together presented a thoroughly ~ view of the problem  3. related by blood or marriage  4. having social, professional, or commercial relationships a well-~ 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  • ~ly adverb  • ~ness noun