👉 In the context of computing and programming, a "joint" is an operator that combines two or more operands into a single result. The terms "join" and "merge" are often used interchangeably in this sense. A common example of a join operation in Python can be seen as: ```python import pandas as pd df = pd.DataFrame({ 'Name': ['John', 'Alice', 'Bob'], 'Age': [25, 30, 40