# junction
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈd͡ʒʌŋkʃən/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ʌŋkʃən

### Noun

junction (plural junctions)
* The act of joining, or the state of being joined.
* A place where two things meet, especially where two roads meet.
* (rail transport) A place where two or more railways or railroads meet.
** 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 66: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.
* (nautical) The place where a distributary departs from the main stream.
* (radio, television) A point in time between two unrelated consecutive broadcasts.
** 2007, Gary Hudson, Sarah Rowlands, The Broadcast Journalism Handbook, page 336:Even rolling news has junctions to meet - headlines on the hour or half-hour, or links to live events, for example.
** 2010, Peter Stewart, Essential Radio Skills: How to Present a Radio Show:Try to avoid becoming too predictable or repetitive, particularly at regular junctions.
* (computing, Microsoft Windows) A kind of symbolic link to a directory.
* (programming) In the Raku programming language, a construct representing a composite of several values connected by an operator.
* (electronics) electrical junction: a point or area where multiple conductors or semiconductors make physical contact.

#### Synonyms

* See Thesaurus:junction

#### Antonyms

* See Thesaurus:junction

#### Derived terms

* abjunction
* adherens junction
* Apache Junction
* Battersby Junction
* Bondi Junction
* box junction
* break junction
* Brunswick Junction
* burrowing junction
* Carstairs Junction
* cavo-atrial junction
* cavoatrial junction
* Chard Junction
* Clapham Junction
* cross junction
* Davis Junction
* depletion junction
* diamond junction
* dysjunction
* flat junction
* flying junction
* gap junction
* Grand Junction
* heterojunction
* Holliday junction
* homojunction
* 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
* Langwith Junction
* level junction
* Limerick Junction
* Llandudno Junction
* Lostock Junction
* malfunction junction
* maljunction
* McCool Junction
* microjunction
* Middleton Junction
* Millertown Junction
* Monmouth Junction
* multijunction
* nanojunction
* neuromuscular junction
* perijunction
* photojunction
* p-n junction
* Princeton Junction
* Rainford Junction
* ring junction
* Seaton Junction
* Severn Tunnel Junction
* spaghetti junction
* thermojunction
* tight junction
* T-junction
* trijunction
* unijunction
* Verney Junction
* Winona Junction
* X-junction
* Yarra Junction
* Y-junction

#### Descendants

* → Bengali: জংশন (joṅśon)
* → Japanese: ジャンクション

#### See also

* crossroad
* intersection
* juncture

### Verb

junction (third-person singular simple present junctions, present participle junctioning, simple past and past participle junctioned)
* (of roads or tracks) To form a junction.