junction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʌŋkʃən/
rhymes: -ʌŋkʃən
Forms: form: junctions
Etymology: From Latin iūnctiō (“union, joining, uniting”), from iungō (“join, attach together”). Equivalent to join + -tion.
Senses: glosses: The act of joining, or the state of being joined.
glosses: A place where two things meet, especially where two roads meet.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 66:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A place where two or more railways or railroads meet.
glosses: The boundary between two physically different materials, especially between conductors, semiconductors, or metals.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The place where a distributary departs from the main stream.
examples: text: Even rolling news has junctions to meet - headlines on the hour or half-hour, or links to live events, for example.
ref: 2007, Gary Hudson, Sarah Rowlands, The Broadcast Journalism Handbook, page 336:
text: Try to avoid becoming too predictable or repetitive, particularly at regular junctions.
ref: 2010, Peter Stewart, Essential Radio Skills: How to Present a Radio Show:
topics: broadcasting
media
radio
television
glosses: A point in time between two unrelated consecutive broadcasts.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: Microsoft Windows
glosses: A kind of symbolic link to a directory.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: In the Raku programming language, a construct representing a composite of several values connected by an operator.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: electrical junction: a point or area where multiple conductors or semiconductors make physical contact.
Synonyms: word: combination
word: composite
word: conjunction
word: fusion
word: junction
word: juncture
word: melding
word: merger
word: unification
word: union
word: unity
Hypernyms: word: relation
Hyponyms: word: hub
word: intersection
word: nerve center
word: nexus
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
Halwill 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
Methley 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
Related terms: word: crossroad
word: intersection
word: juncture
word: disjoin
word: disjointed
word: disjunctive
word: disjunctive normal form
word: dysjunctive
word: connection
word: link