The Royal Spanish Academy ( RAE ), in its dictionary, includes more than a dozen meanings of the term joint , which derives from the verb joint (to gather, unite elements). The first of them refers to the meeting of several individuals to talk about a matter .
For example: "Tomorrow we will have a meeting with those responsible for the different areas of the company to analyze the proposal" , "After a meeting with other specialists, the doctor suggested to the patient's family that they transfer him to a rehabilitation center." » , «The school director called the teachers to a meeting to discuss the issue of bullying in the classroom» .
The group of people chosen to be in charge of the management of a company, an organization or other entity is also called a board or board of directors : "Due to the economic crisis, the board decided to cut the workforce by 10%" , "The week "last year I presented a project to the board of directors , but I still haven't gotten any response," "I'm very happy: they appointed me to the company's board."
We can establish this type of business and organizational meetings that can be of two types: ordinary general or extraordinary general. The first are called six days in advance and are carried out once a year to approve the budget for the following year as well as the management that has been carried out. The latter, for their part, are called 24 hours in advance and there can be as many as desired or necessary during the year.
The idea of a governing board , on the other hand, can refer to the board of directors of a private or public organization . Several Spanish regions currently have governing boards, such as the Junta de Andalucía and the Junta de Galicia .
In the case of these boards of the autonomous communities of Spain we have to establish that they are organizations that are established with the clear objective of governing a specific territory, in this case, the aforementioned regions.
It is true that the Central Government is the one that governs the country, but there are a series of powers that have been delegated to these boards and others that, although they have not been transferred to them, they must manage. Thus, for example, among the aspects over which these aforementioned boards have powers are education or health.
The government made up of the top officials of the armed forces is called a military junta . Usually this type of junta is formed after a coup d'état , when the military overthrows a constitutional government and takes power.
A joint, finally, is a union of two or more pieces or the sector where different pieces join: "You need to put more cement in the joints" , "Fungus usually grows in the joints of bathroom tiles" .
Referring to this name of joints we have to establish that there are many types of them: hidden joints, square joints, covered joints, thin joints, cut joints, ascending joints, head joints...
Likewise, we must discover that also in Latin America they talk about constant velocity joints. This, which also responds to the name tripod, is responsible for connecting two axes that are placed longitudinally so that the rotation speed between them is always identical. Specifically, it can be found, for example, on the wheels of different vehicles.