JOINING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does joining mean? 

• JOINING (noun)
  The noun JOINING has 1 sense:

1. the act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication)

  Familiarity information: JOINING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JOINING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

connection; connexion; joining

Context example:

there was a connection via the internet

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)

 Context examples 

Chromosomal inversion often occurs as the result of non-homologous end-joining of broken DNA strands, and is involved in maintaining cell viability at the expense of long term genomic stability.

(Chromosomal Inversion Process, NCI Thesaurus)

A compound formed by chemically joining two or more different substances.

(Conjugate, NCI Dictionary)

For example, a chimeric antibody is made by joining antibody genes from two different species, such as human and mouse.

(Chimera, NCI Dictionary)

This protein is involved in both the repair of double-strand breaks in DNA and nonhomologous end-joining.

(Nonhomologous End-Joining Factor 1, NCI Thesaurus)

We took our lunch to Mulgrave Woods, Mrs. Westenra driving by the road and Lucy and I walking by the cliff-path and joining her at the gate.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“Their innate sense of right has been violated,” Maud Brewster said, joining the conversation.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The joining together of two or more nucleic acid molecules by the action of ligase

(DNA Ligation, NCI Thesaurus)

A gene made by joining parts of two different genes.

(Fusion gene, NCI Dictionary)

The locus includes V (variable), J (joining), and C (constant) segments.

(Immunoglobulin Kappa Locus, NCI Thesaurus/LocusLink)

Nonhomologous end joining (NHEJ) eliminates DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) by direct ligation.

(Non-Homologous End-Joining Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)