connectivity

English

Etymology

connective +‎ -ity

Noun

connectivity (countable and uncountable, plural connectivities)

1. (uncountable) The state of being connected
   • 2020 April 8, Maria Machancoses, “A boost from the Budget...”, in Rail, page 72:

     Since submitting our Strategic Outline Business Case to the DfT last summer, MPs, government ministers and even the new Prime Minister have started talking about our £2 billion proposals as the answer to poor rail connectivity between the East Midlands and the West Midlands.

2. (telecommunications) The ability to make a connection between two or more points in a network
3. (countable, mathematics) In a graph, a measure of concatenated adjacency (the number of ways that points are connected to each other)

Derived terms

• biconnectivity
• bioconnectivity
• dysconnectivity
• eigenconnectivity
• hyperconnectivity
• hypoconnectivity
• infraconnectivity
• interconnectivity
• landscape connectivity
• macroconnectivity
• microconnectivity
• neuroconnectivity
• overconnectivity
• reconnectivity
• simple connectivity
• underconnectivity

 

Related terms

• connect

Translations

state of being connected

• Catalan: connectivitat f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 連通性／连通性 (zh) (liántōngxìng), 連接性／连接性 (liánjiēxìng)

• Finnish: yhdistyneisyys
• French: connexité (fr) f, connectivité (fr) f
• Galician: conectividade (gl) f
• German: Konnektivität (de) f
• Greek: συνδεσιμότητα (el) f (syndesimótita)
• Hungarian: konnektivitás
• Irish: nascacht f, lúdracht f
• Japanese: 接続性 (せつぞくせい, setsuzokusei)
• Macedonian: повр́зливост (mk) f (povŕzlivost), удру́жливост f (udrúžlivost)
• Portuguese: conectividade (pt) f
• Russian: свя́зность (ru) f (svjáznostʹ)
• Spanish: conectividad

telecom: ability to make a connection between two or more points in a network

• Finnish: yhdistettävyys
• Galician: conectividade (gl)
• Greek: συνδεσιμότητα (el) f (syndesimótita), συνδετικότητα (el) f (syndetikótita)
• Hungarian: konnektivitás
• Portuguese: conectividade (pt) f
• Spanish: conectividad

mathematics: measure of number of ways that points are connected to each other

• Finnish: konnektiivisuus
• Galician: conectividade (gl)
• Hungarian: konnektivitás
• Italian: connettività (it) f
• Portuguese: conectividade (pt) f
• Spanish: conectividad f