Bonding

In telecommunication, the term bonding has the following meanings:

• In electrical engineering, the process of connecting together metal parts so that they make low resistance electrical contact for direct current and lower frequency alternating currents.
• The process of establishing the required degree of electrical continuity between two or more conductive surfaces that are to be joined.

Source: from Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188 and from the Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms

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In chemistry, bonding is the process by which two or more atoms exchange valence electrons and join together to form a molecule. See chemical bonding.