Connection

Connection may refer to:

• Database connection
• Telecommunication circuit, the complete path between two terminals
• Virtual connection, also known as a virtual circuit
• In travel, a connection or layover is a transfer from one means of transport to another

Mathematics

• Connectedness
• Connected sum
• Connection (algebraic framework)
• Connection (mathematics), a way of specifying a derivative of a geometrical object along a vector field on a manifold
  • Connection (affine bundle)
  • Connection (composite bundle)
  • Connection (fibred manifold)
• Connection (principal bundle), gives the derivative of a section of a principle bundle
• Connection (vector bundle), differentiates a section of a vector bundle along a vector field
• Cartan connection, achieved by identifying tangent spaces with the tangent space of a certain model Klein geometry
• Ehresmann connection, gives a manner for differentiating sections of a general fibre bundle
• Electrical connection, allows the flow of electrons
• Galois connection, a type of correspondence between two partially ordered sets
• Affine connection, a geometric object on a smooth manifold which connects nearby tangent spaces
• Levi-Civita connection, used in differential geometry and general relativity; differentiates a vector field along another vector field

Media

• Connection (album), an album by The Green Children
• "Connection" (Elastica song), 1994
• Connection (EP), a 2000 split EP by Home Grown and Limbeck
• Connection (dance), the primary means of communication between the lead and the follow
• "Connection" (The Rolling Stones song), 1967
• "Connection", a song by Can on the 1976 album Unlimited Edition
• "Connection", a song by Avail from their album Satiate

See also

• The Connection (disambiguation)
• Connections (disambiguation)
• Connexion (disambiguation)
• Contiguity
• Link (disambiguation)
• Rapport
• Six degrees of separation