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Connectivity vs Connectome - What's the difference?

connectivity | connectome |

As nouns the difference between connectivity and connectome

is that connectivity is (uncountable) the state of being connected while connectome is (biology)   the complete description of the structural connectivity of an organism's nervous system.

connectivity

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The state of being connected
  • (telecom) The ability to make a connection between two or more points in a network
  • (countable, mathematics) In a graph, a measure of concatenated adjacency (the number of ways that points are connected to each other)

    • Related terms

    * connect * landscape connectivity

    connectome

    English

    (wikipedia connectome)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (biology)   The complete description of the structural connectivity of an organism's nervous system.
  • *2012 , Adam Zeman, ‘Only Connect’, Literary Review , issue 399:
  • *:The tools Seung and his colleagues have developed to map the connectome are beginning to offer important insights into these previously baffling conditions.
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
    • , author= , title=Well-connected Brains , volume=100, issue=2, page=171 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work.}}