The Collaborative International Dictionary
interconnected \interconnected\ adj.
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having internal connections between parts. [Narrower terms: reticulate (vs. nonreticulate)]
Syn: interrelated.
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operating as a unit.
Syn: coordinated, unified.
integrated \integrated\ adj.
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Formed or united into a whole.
Syn: incorporate, incorporated, merged, unified.
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Formed into a whole or introduced into another entity; as, an integrated Europe. Opposite of nonintegrated. [Narrower terms: coordinated, interconnected, unified; embedded; incorporated; tight-knit, tightly knit]
a more closely integrated economic and political system
--Dwight D. Eisenhower Having different groups treated together as equals in one group; as, racially integrated schools. [Narrower terms: co-ed, coeducational; desegrated, nonsegregated, unsegregated; interracial; mainstreamed] Also See: integrative, joint, united. Antonym: segregated.
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Resembling a living organism in organization or development. [Narrower terms: organic (vs. inorganic)]
Syn: structured.
combined. Opposite of uncombined.
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having constituent parts mixed to form a single unit. Opposite of unmixed. [Narrower terms: blended[2]]
Syn: amalgamated, intermingled, mixed.
Wiktionary
intertwined; connected at multiple points or levels v
(en-past of: interconnect)
WordNet
adj. reciprocally connected [syn: interrelated]
operating as a unit; "a unified utility system"; "a coordinated program" [syn: coordinated, unified]
Usage examples of "interconnected".
We live today in a globally interconnected world, in which biological, psychological, social, and environmental phenomena are all interdependent.
In some places the cliffs of buildings rose to support it, dividing the space beneath into enclosed basins of varied cityscapes interconnected in the upper parts by vast corridors carrying streams of airborne traffic and transport tubes.
For what we find as we carefully study Piaget is that the productions of, say, the preoperational mind initially look very holistic, very interconnected, very "religious" in a sense, until we even barely scratch the surface and find the whole production supported by egocentrism, artificialism, finalism, anthropocentrism, and indissociation.
London was afflicted by a whole series of interconnected problems, whose root cause Siobhan at first couldn't guess at.
The beds were interconnected by tubing, and there was a steady hum of fans and pumps, a hiss of humidifiers.
The result was a detachment from traditional political structures among the young and middle-aged, who, educated and interconnected, often showed more loyalty to others like them around the world than to the nations of which they were nominally citizens.
The growth of a literate, interconnected elite certainly made major wars a lot less likely in the future.
The local smartness, interconnected, would of course add up to a total powerful intelligence.
On a planet of intricately interconnected systems of life and air, water and rock, could we even predict the consequences of what we were doing?
The systems were beginning to interlock in the 'sixties, and by now they're interconnected like a mat of vines.
Henry and I were wrong when we guessed how big the megasystem of interconnected systems was going to be in twenty years, when we guessed how far it would spread to things outside of government as well as in.
They, as OCTAGON now began to perceive, were the builders and usually the operators of the whole interconnected megasystem whose complexities made OCTAGON's existence possible.
What humans considered to be outputs of key importance, from their various interconnected systems, slowed and became lightly erratic.
Farther on, they saw on the skyline an array of slender, pear-topped towers, interconnected by tubes, that must have stood a mile high.
The flashing symbol showing inside the zone beneath the ship centered on a maze of alleyways and side streets at the base of a complex of interconnected buildings that merged into a step-tapered tower.