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junction

'dʒʌŋkʃәn9 senses · 173 ms
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noun/ˈd͡ʒʌŋkʃən/
  1. 1

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

    • Their collaboration formed a fruitful junction of ideas.
  2. 2

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

    • Turn left at the next road junction.
  3. 3

    A place where two or more railways or railroads meet.

    • The two rail lines meet at a major junction.
  4. 4

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

  5. 5

    The place where a distributary departs from the main stream.

  6. 6

    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.
    • Try to avoid becoming too predictable or repetitive, particularly at regular junctions.
  7. 7

    A kind of symbolic link to a directory.

  8. 8

    In the Raku programming language, a construct representing a composite of several values connected by an operator.

  9. 9

    electrical junction: a point or area where multiple conductors or semiconductors make physical contact.

syn. combination · composite · conjunction · fusion · junction · juncture · melding · merger · unification · union · unity

ant. cleft · disjoint · disjunct · disjunction · disunification · disunion · dysjunction · malunion

verb/ˈd͡ʒʌŋkʃən/
  1. 1

    To form a junction.figuratively

    • critical junction
    • symbolic junction

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