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junction

noun, verb — 10 senses

junction

noun

/ˈd͡ʒʌŋkʃən/

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

9 senses
  1. 1The act of joining, or the state of being joined.
  2. 2A place where two things meet, especially where two roads meet.
  3. 3A place where two or more railways or railroads meet.
  4. 4The boundary between two physically different materials…
  5. 5The place where a distributary departs from the main stream.
  6. 6A point in time between two unrelated consecutive broadcasts.
  7. 7A kind of symbolic link to a directory.
  8. 8In the Raku programming language, a construct…
  9. 9electrical junction: a point or area where multiple…
1

The act of joining, or the state of being joined.

  • Their collaboration formed a fruitful junction of ideas.
2

A place where two things meet, especially where two roads meet.

  • Turn left at the next road junction.
3

Rail transport, Railways, Transport A place where two or more railways or railroads meet.

  • The two rail lines meet at a major junction.
  • In the mid-1930s, when Stalin was looking to make a statement with his new Metro, he consulted Underground engineers, who offered advice to the Russian Minister in charge of the Metro project, Nikita Khrushchev. He was severely told: 'Don't have a Circle Line - too many flat junctions.' Moscow did build a circle line, but with flying junctions, by which one track goes over another.2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 66:
4

The boundary between two physically different materials, especially between conductors, semiconductors, or metals.

5

Nautical, Transport The place where a distributary departs from the main stream.

6

Broadcasting, Media, Radio, Television 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.2007, Gary Hudson, Sarah Rowlands, The Broadcast Journalism Handbook, page 336:
  • Try to avoid becoming too predictable or repetitive, particularly at regular junctions.2010, Peter Stewart, Essential Radio Skills: How to Present a Radio Show:
7

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A kind of symbolic link to a directory.

Microsoft Windows

8

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences In the Raku programming language, a construct representing a composite of several values connected by an operator.

9

Business, Electrical engineering, Electricity, Electromagnetism, Electronics, Energy, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics electrical junction: a point or area where multiple conductors or semiconductors make physical contact.

Synonyms
combination, composite, conjunction, fusion, junction, juncture, melding, merger, unification, union, unity
Antonyms
cleft, disjoint, disjunct, disjunction, disunification, disunion, dysjunction, malunion, misunion, separation
Derived terms
95 termsabjunction, adherens junction, annular gap junction, Apache Junction, Archdale Junction, Battersby Junction, Bondi Junction, box junction, break junction, Brownville Junction, Brunswick Junction, Burren Junction, burrowing junction, Carstairs Junction, cavoatrial junction, cavo-atrial junction, cell-cell junction, cell junction, Chard Junction, Clapham Junction, cross junction, Davis Junction, depletion junction, diamond junction, dysjunction, Effingham Junction, Essex Junction, flat junction, flying junction, gap junction, Grand Junction, Halwill Junction, heterojunction, Holliday junction, homojunction, Hopewell Junction, Horbury Junction, Josephson junction, junctional, junction box, junction canal, Junction City, junction detector, junction diode, junction gate, junctionless, junction nevus, junctionopathy, junction point, junction table, junction transistor, junction tree, Junction Village, Langwith Junction, level junction, Limerick Junction, Llandudno Junction, lossless junction, Lostock Junction, malfunction junction, maljunction, McCool Junction, Methley Junction, microjunction, Middleton Junction, Millertown Junction, Monmouth Junction, multijunction, nanojunction, neuromuscular junction, Newton Junction, Oaklands Junction, perijunction, photojunction, p-n junction, Princeton Junction, Rainford Junction, ring junction, Seaton Junction, Severn Tunnel Junction, spaghetti junction, Sterling Junction, The Junction, thermojunction, tight junction, T-junction, trijunction, unijunction, Verney Junction, Wedderburn Junction, White River Junction, Winona Junction, X-junction, Yarra Junction, Y-junction
Related terms
crossroad, intersection, juncture, disjoin, disjointed, disjunctive, disjunctive normal form, dysjunctive, connection, link
Hypernyms
relation, state
Hyponyms
hub, intersection, nerve center, nexus

junction

verb

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

1

Figuratively, Of roads or tracks To form a junction.

  • critical junction
  • symbolic junction
1 more example
  • The company is at a critical junction in its development.

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