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  1. [data conversion] Connecting two or more features from different sets of data so that they become a single feature.

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  2. [data architecture] Appending the fields of one table to those of another through an attribute or field common to both tables. A join is typically used to attach more attributes to the attribute table of a geographic layer.

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