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interconnected

interconnected adjective: intertwined; connected at multiple points or levels. Also the simple past and past participle of interconnect.

Adjective

interconnected (comparative more interconnected, superlative most interconnected)

  1. Intertwined; connected at multiple points or levels.
    • Typically, osteoporosis causes the amount of trabecular bone to be reduced and the bone to become thinner, while the intertrabecular space enlarges and the interconnected structure of trabecular bone is disrupted.2015 July 6, “Assessment of the Impact of Zoledronic Acid on Ovariectomized Osteoporosis Model Using Micro-CT Scanning”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
    • So why is Ethiopia, Africa’s second most populous country, seven years and eight months “behind” much of the rest of the world? And how does that work for Ethiopians living on an increasingly interconnected planet that mostly operates in an entirely different era?2024 June 16, Tamara Hardingham-Gill, “The country where it’s still 2016”, in CNN
    Synonyms:
    interlinked

Also used as

interconnected is also the simple past and past participle of interconnect.

Examples of interconnected in a sentence

  • Many commuters travel daily between the Illinois suburbs and Northwest Indiana, making the Illiana area a bustling, interconnected community.
  • BGP acts as the digital map that directs this traffic across thousands of interconnected networks.
  • Thus, the cycles are, in principle, interconnected — in a process dubbed the “Krebs bicycle”.

All 20 example sentences with interconnected

Synonyms of interconnected

Forms of interconnected

comparativemore interconnected
superlativemost interconnected

Origin of interconnected

From inter- + connected.

Words formed from interconnected

Questions about interconnected

What does interconnected mean?
Interconnected means intertwined; connected at multiple points or levels.
What part of speech is interconnected?
Interconnected is an adjective.

Words near interconnected in the dictionary

  1. interconformer
  2. interconnect
  3. interconnectability
  4. interconnectable
  5. interconnectance
  6. interconnected
  7. interconnectedly
  8. interconnectedness
  9. interconnectednesses
  10. interconnectible
  11. interconnecting

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