reconnected

Reconnected is the past tense and past participle of reconnect, meaning to establish again a connection that was broken or to renew an association after a period of separation. The form combines the prefix re- meaning again with connect, which derives from Latin relating to binding or joining.

In technology, reconnected describes devices, services, or networks that have reestablished communication after an interruption or outage. It can refer to Wi-Fi, internet connections, or client-server sessions that resume following retries or user action.

In social contexts, reconnected describes people who have renewed contact or rekindled a relationship after time apart, distance, or estrangement.

As a past participle, it appears in passive constructions such as the server has reconnected or a link was reconnected, and in perfect tenses such as they have reconnected. The present participle is reconnecting, and the related noun is reconnection.

Examples include a smartphone reconnected to a network after moving into range, or colleagues who reconnected after several years. Technical implementations may use backoff strategies and automatic retries to maintain or restore connectivity. See also reconnect, reconnection, disconnection, outage.