{
  "id": "join.connection",
  "term": "join",
  "sense": "connection",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 5,
  "arena": "join",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "to make two things contact so that they are as one",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "contact.physical",
      "interaction.process",
      "make.verb"
    ],
    "interaction": "the contact and interaction together create a shared connection",
    "novel_properties": [
      "shared connection",
      "persistent unity",
      "structured relation"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station modules were linked in orbit starting in 1998 to form a single habitable structure.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 2007, the countries of Rwanda and Burundi connected their national power grids to the East African Power Pool.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Two hydrogen atoms fuse into one helium atom in the Sun’s core, releasing energy through nuclear fusion.",
      "domain": "physics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "connects.verb",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "conjunction.grammar",
    "thread.material",
    "union.group",
    "wed.social"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "join",
    "joined",
    "joining",
    "joins"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added make.verb (L4) to components, as the definition implies intentional formation and persistence of structure, which is not entailed by contact and interaction alone."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-join.connection"
}