Connection

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Notion

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Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

In geometry, the notion of a connection makes precise the idea of transporting local geometric objects, such as tangent vectors or tensors in the tangent space, along a curve or family of curves in a parallel and consistent manner.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Connection (mathematics)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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