joining n : the act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication); "the joining of hands around the table"; "there was a connection via the internet" [syn: connection, connexion]

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joining

1. present participle of join

Join may refer to:

• Join (law), to include additional counts or additional defendants on an indictment
• Join (mathematics), a least upper bound in lattice theory
• Join (relational algebra), a type of binary operator
• Join (SQL), a SQL and relational database operation
• Join (topology), an operation combining two topological spaces
• join (Unix), a Unix command
• Join-calculus, a process calculus developed at INRIA for the design of distributed programming languages

See also

• Joiner, a woodworker who makes and installs architectural woodwork
• Joinery (disambiguation)
• Joint (disambiguation)

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