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Joining

The process, by various methods, of assembling the shaped sections of multi-piece objects, including soldering, colloid hard-soldering, diffusion bonding, pinning (by attaching with small pins), clinching (by overlapping, folding, and hammering down the edges), eutectic welding, etc.

From: An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry, autor: Harold Newman, publishers: Thames and Hudson