The term Connection has various uses, for example:
- An act of connecting two or more physical entities in a physical sense or connecting concepts in memory or imagination
- Telecommunications circuit switching
- Telecommunications circuit switching
- That which connects, relates or joins:
- An electrical connection
- A telecommunication circuit such as a fiber-optic connection
- LAN, PAN, MAN, WAN and other types of synchronous or asynchronous connectionss between computers using OSI or other protocols
- The property of a device enabling it to be connected may be referred to as its connectivity.
- The connection between interacting people
- The connection between dance partners
- That to which an entity is connected, such as
- A business or political connection
- A means of transport used for a second or subsequent part of a journey
- A supplier of illegal drugs
- In mathematics
- A topological property of certain mathematical objects, better called connectedness: see connected
- A fundamental structure in differential geometry allowing the use of parallel transport on manifolds: see connection (mathematics), connection (fiber bundle)
- The Connexxion public transport company of the Netherlands