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JOINING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication)
Example:
there was a connection via the internet
Synonyms:
connection; connexion; joining
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("joining" is a kind of...):
change of integrity (the act of changing the unity or wholeness of something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "joining"):
hit (a connection made via the internet to another website)
interconnection ((computer science) the act of interconnecting (wires or computers or theories etc.))
intersection (the act of intersecting (as joining by causing your path to intersect your target's path))
approximation; bringing close together (the act of bringing near or bringing together especially the cut edges of tissue)
concatenation (the act of linking together as in a series or chain)
convergence; convergency; converging (the act of converging (coming closer))
coming upon; encounter (a casual meeting with a person or thing)
articulation (the act of joining things in such a way that motion is possible)
adjunction; junction (an act of joining or adjoining things)
attachment; fastening (the act of fastening things together)
Derivation:
join (make contact or come together)
join (cause to become joined or linked)
join (be or become joined or united or linked)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb join
Context examples:
Light chains use variable (V) and joining (J) elements, whereas heavy chains incorporate an additional diversity (D) element between the V and J elements.
(Immunoglobulin Diversity Region, NCI Thesaurus)
A rare condition in which abnormal cells grow inside the uterus from tissue that forms after conception (the joining of sperm and egg).
(Gestational trophoblastic disease, NCI Dictionary)
A protein made from a fusion gene, which is created by joining parts of two different genes.
(Fusion protein, NCI Dictionary)
I could not help joining, and we laughed together, peal after peal, until the tavern rang again.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
This trend was started last month, when Jupiter first entered this sector, joining Saturn and Pluto already there.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Julia, joining them at the moment, carried on the joke.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
As to you, Watson, you are joining us with your old service, as I understand, so London won’t be out of your way.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Even Belcher could not help joining in the general shout of applause.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This allele, which encodes protein artemis, plays a role in the mediation of both V(D)J recombination and DNA repair via nonhomologous end joining.
(DCLRE1C wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
A solid dosage form bounded by a circular base and the surface formed by line segments joining every point of the boundary of the base to a common vertex.
(Cone Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
