Definition of joint

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Joint (n.) The means whereby the meeting surfaces of pieces in a structure are secured together.

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Arthrodynic :: Arthrodynic (a.) Pertaining to arthrodynia, or pain in the joints; rheumatic..
Deuterozooid :: Deuterozooid (n.) One of the secondary, and usually sexual, zooids produced by budding or fission from the primary zooids, in animals having alternate generations. In the tapeworms, the joints are deuterozooids..
Passegarde :: Passegarde (n.) A ridge or projecting edge on a shoulder piece to turn the blow of a lance or other weapon from the joint of the armor.
Joint-fir :: "Joint-fir (n.) A genus (Ephedra) of leafless shrubs, with the stems conspicuously jointed; -- called also shrubby horsetail. There are about thirty species, of which two or three are found from Texas to California..
Articulate :: Articulate (v. t.) To joint; to unite by means of a joint; to put together with joints or at the joints.
Anchylose :: Anchylose (v. t. & i.) To affect or be affected with anchylosis; to unite or consolidate so as to make a stiff joint; to grow together into one.
Shift :: Shift (v. t.) In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints..
Disjoint :: Disjoint (a.) Disjointed; unconnected; -- opposed to conjoint.
Malleolar :: Malleolar (a.) Of or pertaining to the malleolus; in the region of the malleoli of the ankle joint.
Scarf :: Scarf (v. t.) To form a scarf on the end or edge of, as for a joint in timber, metal rods, etc..
Psychophysics :: Psychophysics (n.) The science of the connection between nerve action and consciousness; the science which treats of the relations of the psychical and physical in their conjoint operation in man; the doctrine of the relation of function or dependence between body and soul.
Concause :: Concause (n.) A joint cause.
Connectively :: Connectively (adv.) In connjunction; jointly.
Entrochite :: Entrochite (n.) A fossil joint of a crinoid stem.
Basipodite :: Basipodite (n.) The basal joint of the legs of Crustacea.
Scarf :: Scarf (n.) In a piece which is to be united to another by a scarf joint, the part of the end or edge that is tapered off, rabbeted, or notched so as to be thinner than the rest of the piece..
Ham :: Ham (n.) The region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock.
Dimera :: Dimera (n. pl.) A division of Coleoptera, having two joints to the tarsi..
Settle :: Settle (v. i.) To make a jointure for a wife.
Knot :: Knot (n.) A protuberant joint in a plant.
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