reconnection

noun

re·​con·​nec·​tion (ˌ)rē-kə-ˈnek-shən 

plural reconnections

: the act or result of restoring a connection : the state of being reconnected

Your best bet is to arrange a utility transfer as far ahead as possible to avoid any disruption in service and the dreaded and totally avoidable reconnection fee.

—Leslie Sargent Eskildsen

His reconnection with lost family members … made him aware for the first time not only of his clan's fate in the People's Republic, but also of the distinguished part it had played during the dynastic period as well.

—Orville Schell

Examples of reconnection in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Magnetic reconnection — when magnetic field lines converge, break apart and reconnect in an explosive physical process — is responsible for powerful solar events, such as solar flares and coronal mass ejections. —Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025

Olivier Giroud has fond flashbacks of his time with Chelsea, enough of them that in normal circumstances, Monday would be cause for a series of happy reconnections, albeit amid a backdrop of competitive hostility. —Martin Rogers, New York Times, 16 June 2025

June 2025 Six of Cups: June brings memories, nostalgia, and the sweet ache of reconnection, Libra. —Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 June 2025

Arts are essential to that reconnection in identity with each other, a collective identity. —Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 10 Mar. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1792, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for reconnection

• circumspection
• disaffection
• disconnection
• disinfection
• dorsiflexion
• imperfection
• indirection
• insurrection
• intellection
• interjection
• intersection
• introjection