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joins

/d͡ʒɔɪnz/

joins is the plural of join.

joins is the third-person singular simple present indicative of join.

Meaning of join

Noun

join (plural joins)

  1. An act of joining or the state of being joined; a junction or joining.
    • We found 217 putative interchromosomal joins. Only one of these joins (in the paternal assembly of HG02080) was located in a euchromatic, non-acrocentric region and was manually confirmed to be a misassembly.2023 May 11, Wen-Wei Liao, Mobin Asri, Jana Ebler, et al., “A draft human pangenome reference”, in Nature, volume 617, →DOI, page 313
  2. An intersection of piping or wiring; an interconnect.
  3. An intersection of data in two or more database tables.
  4. The act of joining something, such as a network.
    • The offline domain join is a three-step process described subsequently: […]2010, Dustin Hannifin, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Administrator's Reference
  5. The lowest upper bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∨.
    Antonyms:
    meet
  6. The smallest linear space containing both of two given linear spaces.

See all 16 meanings of join

Phrases with joins

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Words that rhyme with joins

Questions about joins

What is joins the plural of?
Joins is the plural of join.
How do you pronounce joins?
Joins is pronounced /d͡ʒɔɪnz/.

Words near joins in the dictionary

  1. joining up
  2. joiningly
  3. joinings
  4. joinpoint
  5. joinpoints
  6. joins
  7. joins forces
  8. joins hands
  9. joins in
  10. joins out
  11. joins the choir invisible

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