What’s the difference between being connected with others and being interconnected?
I always thought inter means that the elements (Element) I’m talking about have a relation with another one. As already mentioned, the word connected gets its name. So when I read “interconnected,” I think about: “something attach-idly joined to another”
I would appreciate if someone can explain this to me.
What is this? “to be or be MUTUALLY connected,” from ” https://www.merriamwebster.com. com/dictionary/interconnection ”
The difference being the mutual part. What does it mean that you can CONNECT WITH A FRIEND when she/he is not CONNENTING with YOU?
What difference i draw between interconnected and connected?
F nodes are interconnected but not connected: a == B
== C | D B is connected to
A, C, and D. A is connected to B. but A, B, C, and D are all interconnected.
The only useful distinction I can make is that connection refers to the linkage between two things (node) while interconnection refers to multiple connections among multiple nodes. This is not borne out by examining dictionary definitions, however, and if dictionaries (i.e. Google) use such words (i.e. words and phrases) are not used, they can just be googled. Does current usage) have it right the two are pretty much interchangeable.
If you look at the word roots, interconnection seems pleonastic: con (together) + nectere (bind) already means bind together in connect. If inter (between, among) is used to bind together, only “between” or “among” can be used as the “happiness” of the sentence. What makes things easily bind together?
Etymonline tells us that Interconnect is by far the more recent coinage, first attested in 1865, some three centuries after connect. So I really don’t have any good advice except mention the difference, as I did in the first paragraph of this answer.
