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adjective

as in connecting

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verb

present participle of interconnect
as in coupling
to put or bring together so as to form a new and longer whole we interconnected all of our audio and video components to get the full home theater experience

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Recent Examples of interconnecting
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Jerusalem — The strike plan called for hitting a vast underground complex in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah, comprised of dozens of rooms and a network of interconnecting tunnels. — Jeremy Diamond, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2026 There are no interconnecting rooms in the hotel; however, rollaway beds and cots are available. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026 Plus, there’s the world-famous Needles, with over 60 miles of interconnecting trails. — Jamie Siebrase, Denver Post, 20 Aug. 2026 The Yankees conducted a series of interconnecting roster moves the next morning, including releasing Rodriguez and promoting Judge and fellow rookie Tyler Austin ahead of their game against the Tampa Bay Rays in the Bronx. — Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2026 In fact, some hyperscalers are proceeding quickly to power up their private grids while beginning the process of interconnecting to public grids. — John Kostyack, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026 Even with all of these advances, several interconnecting barriers continue to hinder access and exacerbate disparities. — Michael Chancley, USA Today, 17 July 2026 This concern should not be a barrier to modernizing and interconnecting our grid to enable approvals for renewable energy projects. — James Ferguson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 July 2026 Los Angeles is famously one of the most car-dependent cities in the world, relying on a spaghetti of interconnecting freeways that spread out across a sprawling area. — New Atlas, 9 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for interconnecting
  1. connecting
  2. coupling
  3. connected
  4. integrating
  5. linked
  6. linking
  7. attached
  8. joined
Adjective
  • For families Ski vacations and mountain vacations are meant to be enjoyed with the whole family—there’s little that is more connecting than a day on the slopes.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Znotins acknowledges that the airline makes prices for those non-connecting trips expensive to discourage non-connecting customers from booking them.
    — Talia Soglin, Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2026
Definition of connecting
Verb
  • Tatum won Love Island USA in July, coupling up with Bryce Alakai for the victory.
    — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 8 Oct. 2026
  • For the project Winter and her team tired coupling plasma with electrocatalysis.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of coupling
Adjective
  • The Hawks looked connected in a 119-117 win in exhibition action against the Pacers on Saturday.
    — Lauren Williams, AJC.com, 11 Oct. 2026
  • Around these expanding buffers, SANDO constructs a safety corridor, a chain of connected, obstacle-free regions of three-dimensional space.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 11 Oct. 2026
Definition of connected
Verb
  • By then, Meta had begun integrating Manus' team and technology into its own.
    — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2026
  • The message comes following Tuesday morning’s memo from David Ellison, chairman and CEO, and co-CEO Ynon Kreiz, which acknowledged that layoffs will be part of the process of integrating the two companies.
    — Payton Turkeltaub, Variety, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of integrating
Adjective
  • Overall, Pro-Tek’s storage and services are very much linked, driving a business mix that is close to 50-50.
    — Brent Simon, Variety, 14 Mar. 2024
Definition of linked
Verb
  • Attention turned out to be the right mathematical operation for linking words and building context — the fundamentals of translation.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 12 Oct. 2026
  • The Lansing Police department announced in a news conference that the five deaths occurred over the last year with unnerving similarities linking all of them, FOX 2 reported.
    — Kelsie Cairns, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of linking
Adjective
  • Upon passing through a deep portico entryway abutting an attached two-car garage, a vaulted reception gallery sits beneath a prominent glass atrium.
    — Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Dragon will stay attached to the ISS for about a month, then head back down to Earth with scientific experiments and other hardware.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of attached
Adjective
  • The containers have been heavily modified, with two joined side-by-side and the third placed on top at one end.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 11 Oct. 2026
  • Jones, the former Apple exec who recently re-joined Amazon, padded out the programming wish list.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of joined

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“Interconnecting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/interconnecting. Accessed 14 Oct. 2026.

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