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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The quality or condition of being connected or connective.
  • noun The ability to make and maintain a connection between two or more points in a telecommunications system.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In mathematics, the order of connection.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun uncountable The state of being connected
  • noun telecom The ability to make a connection between two or more points in a network
  • noun countable, mathematics In a graph, a measure of concatenated adjacency (the number of ways that points are connected to each other)

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the property of being connected or the degree to which something has connections

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Examples

  • Comcast has done nothing but raise my price, and my connectivity is absolutely horrendous.

    The Raging Grannies Greet the F.C.C. - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • We developed in our rooms what we call a connectivity panel, part of our television sets so you can plug in your ipod and listen to music on the speakers from the TV.

    CNN Transcript Jun 10, 2007 2007

  • We developed in our rooms what we call a connectivity panel, part of our television sets so you can plug in your ipod and listen to music on the speakers from the TV.

    CNN Transcript Jun 9, 2007 2007

  • The price of the connectivity is then shared between the users, with no extra fees.

    Boing Boing: September 8, 2002 - September 14, 2002 Archives 2002

  • The organisers say the event would contribute to what it called connectivity across African borders.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • Best Buy has combined several of its retail groups to into what it calls a "connectivity business group".

    unknown title 2012

  • Best Buy has combined several of its retail groups to into what it calls a "connectivity business group".

    Forbes.com: News Elizabeth Woyke 2012

  • "A key ingredient here is what we call connectivity -- does the cause the philanthropist supports have implications for other issues?"

    unknown title 2009

  • Presumably all this connectivity is limiting an old-fashioned kind of connectivity that used to be a hallmark of the artists colony: after-hours bedhopping, as when John Cheever — at Yaddo in 1971 — enjoyed what biographer Blake Bailey called a "satisfactory tryst with a painter exactly half his age."

    Retreats Surrender to Wi-Fi Steven Kurutz 2010

  • Then it explores how those devices became a source of pervasive connectedness to friends, family, lovers and co-workers -- a completely different kind of connectivity from the "other-world" internet space experienced through personal computers.

    Boing Boing 2005

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