Junction

//ˈd͡ʒʌŋkʃən// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A village in Gallatin County, Illinois, United States.
  2. 2
    A city, the county seat of Kimble County, Texas, United States.
  3. 3
    A small town, the county seat of Piute County, Utah, United States.
  4. 4
    An unincorporated community in Clark County, Wisconsin, United States.
Noun
  1. 1
    The act of joining, or the state of being joined.

    "Their collaboration formed a fruitful junction of ideas."

  2. 2
    an act of joining or adjoining things wordnet
  3. 3
    A place where two things meet, especially where two roads meet.

    "Turn left at the next road junction."

  4. 4
    the place where two or more things come together wordnet
  5. 5
    A place where two or more railways or railroads meet.

    "The two rail lines meet at a major junction."

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  1. 6
    something that joins or connects wordnet
  2. 7
    The boundary between two physically different materials, especially between conductors, semiconductors, or metals.
  3. 8
    the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made wordnet
  4. 9
    The place where a distributary departs from the main stream.
  5. 10
    the state of being joined together wordnet
  6. 11
    A point in time between two unrelated consecutive broadcasts.

    "Even rolling news has junctions to meet - headlines on the hour or half-hour, or links to live events, for example."

  7. 12
    A kind of symbolic link to a directory.
  8. 13
    In the Raku programming language, a construct representing a composite of several values connected by an operator.
  9. 14
    electrical junction: a point or area where multiple conductors or semiconductors make physical contact.
Verb
  1. 1
    To form a junction. figuratively

    "critical junction"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Latin iūnctiō (“union, joining, uniting”), from iungō (“join, attach together”). Equivalent to join + -tion.

Etymology 2

From Latin iūnctiō (“union, joining, uniting”), from iungō (“join, attach together”). Equivalent to join + -tion.

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