attached

adj.

1. Architecture. Joined to or by a wall, especially by sharing a wall with another building; not freestanding: a block of attached houses.
2. Biology. Living in a permanently fixed state in the adult stage, as the barnacle.

adj

Definition: married
Antonyms: single, unattached

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IN BRIEF: adj. - Fastened together; Being joined in close association

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. — Virginia Woolf, Source: A Room Of One's Own, ch. 3 (1929).

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The adjective has 5 meanings:

Meaning #1: fastened together

Meaning #2: being joined in close association
  Synonyms: affiliated, connected

Meaning #3: (architecture) used of buildings joined by common sidewalls
  Antonym: detached (meaning #4)

Meaning #4: (biology) permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about
  Synonym: sessile

Meaning #5: associated in an exclusive sexual relationship
  Synonym: committed
  Antonym: unattached (meaning #2)

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Network Attached Storage	network attached storage
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