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Junction
//ˈd͡ʒʌŋkʃən// name, noun, verb
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Proper Noun
- 1 A village in Gallatin County, Illinois, United States.
- 2 A city, the county seat of Kimble County, Texas, United States.
- 3 A small town, the county seat of Piute County, Utah, United States.
- 4 An unincorporated community in Clark County, Wisconsin, United States.
Noun
- 1 The act of joining, or the state of being joined.
"Their collaboration formed a fruitful junction of ideas."
- 2 an act of joining or adjoining things wordnet
- 3 A place where two things meet, especially where two roads meet.
"Turn left at the next road junction."
- 4 the place where two or more things come together wordnet
- 5 A place where two or more railways or railroads meet.
"The two rail lines meet at a major junction."
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- 6 something that joins or connects wordnet
- 7 The boundary between two physically different materials, especially between conductors, semiconductors, or metals.
- 8 the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made wordnet
- 9 The place where a distributary departs from the main stream.
- 10 the state of being joined together wordnet
- 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."
- 12 A kind of symbolic link to a directory.
- 13 In the Raku programming language, a construct representing a composite of several values connected by an operator.
- 14 electrical junction: a point or area where multiple conductors or semiconductors make physical contact.
Verb
- 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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