The act of connecting or the state of being connected; a relationship or link between things.
From Latin 'connectere' (con- + nectere, to bind), meaning to tie together. The suffix '-ation' creates a noun form referring to an action or process.
This word is incredibly rare in modern English, but it shows how languages create new words by adding suffixes to existing roots—the same root 'nect' gives us connect, connective, connection, and dozens of related words, all spinning from the Latin idea of 'binding together.'
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