joining

Pluraljoinings

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of join.

   Two rival companies are joining forces to finish the project.

   Joining the army completely changed the course of his life.

   Note

   The -ing form does two jobs: after be it builds the progressive (are joining forces), and as a gerund it names the action while keeping a direct object (joining the army). That object is the test against the noun for a joint: the noun takes an article, a plural, joinings, and of before what is joined. In database work, joining tables produces an intersection of their data.

2. 2
   nouncountable

   The act or result of putting parts together, or the joint or juncture where two pieces meet.

   A clean joining of the wires kept the connection from overheating.

   The carpenter sanded each joining until the seams were nearly invisible.

   Similarjoint, seam, connection, junction

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