Direct connect may refer to:
- Direct Connect (file sharing), a file sharing client and protocol
- A protocol used by the program AOL Instant Messenger
- A push-to-talk system similar to a walkie-talkie, first marketed by Sprint Nextel
- A standardized XML-based distribution technology methodology utilized within a supply chain to connect the supply side with the demand side resulting in reduced intermediaries and distribution costs. Primarily used in airline distribution. See Open AXIS Group.org
Famous quotes containing the words direct and/or connect:
“Traditionally in American society, men have been trained for both competition and teamwork through sports, while women have been reared to merge their welfare with that of the family, with fewer opportunities for either independence or other team identifications, and fewer challenges to direct competition. In effect, women have been circumscribed within that unit where the benefit of one is most easily believed to be the benefit of all.”
—Mary Catherine Bateson (b. 1939)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)