Pronunciations (2)
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/ˈd͡ʒʌŋkʃən/
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ˈdʒʌŋkʃən
Noun
The act of joining, or the state of being joined.
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Their collaboration formed a fruitful junction of ideas.
A place where two things meet, especially where two roads meet.
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Turn left at the next road junction.
A place where two or more railways or railroads meet.
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The two rail lines meet at a major junction.
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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.
The boundary between two physically different materials, especially between conductors, semiconductors, or metals.
The place where a distributary departs from the main stream.
A point in time between two unrelated consecutive broadcasts.
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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.
A kind of symbolic link to a directory.
In the Raku programming language, a construct representing a composite of several values connected by an operator.
electrical junction: a point or area where multiple conductors or semiconductors make physical contact.
Verb
To form a junction.
Usage- Figurative
- of roads or tracks
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critical junction
symbolic junction
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The company is at a critical junction in its development.
Noun
the place where two or more things come together
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the state of being joined together
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the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made
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something that joins or connects
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an act of joining or adjoining things
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