connection vs connector

connection

noun
  • The act of connecting. 

  • A feeling of understanding and ease of communication between two or more people. 

  • sexual intercourse 

  • A kinship relationship between people. 

  • An individual who is related to oneself, through either family or business. 

  • A drug dealer. 

  • The description for a Methodist denomination as a whole, as opposed to its constituent churches, circuits, districts and conferences. 

  • Coherence; lack of disjointedness 

  • The point at which two or more things are connected. 

  • A transfer from one transportation vehicle to another in scheduled transportation service 

  • A set of sets that contains the empty set, all one-element sets for any element that is included in any of the sets, and the union of any group of sets that are elements where the intersections of those sets is non-empty. 

  • An established communications or transportation link. 

connector

noun
  • One who connects. 

  • A line connecting two shapes in presentation software. 

  • A device (or, more precisely, a mating pair of devices, often a plug and a socket) for connecting together two wires, cables, or hoses, allowing electricity or fluid to flow but also allowing easy disconnection and reconnection when necessary. 

  • A highway or freeway road which connects to another highway or freeway. It can be part of an interchange or a longer roadway such as the 1.5 mile (2.5 kilometer) U.S. Route 24 Connector. 

  • A software component that provides access from an application program to an external database or data source, such as a JDBC connector. 

  • Any of a group of cards of consecutive face value, useful in forming straights etc. 

How often have the words connection and connector occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )