I. adjective
1. : joined or linked together
a connected series
2. : having the parts or elements logically related
a connected view of the problem
or continuous
connected reading from the great authors
3. : related by blood or marriage
a well- connected Edinburgh family — Rosemary Benét
a well- connected Marylander — it was supposed that his grandfather was the younger brother of the Earl of Wemyss — Van Wyck Brooks
4. chess
a. of pawns : on adjacent squares
b. of rooks : mutually supported (as on an empty rank)
• con·nect·ed·ly adverb
• con·nect·ed·ness noun -es
II. adjective
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 — compare simply connected herein
• con·nect·ed·ness noun