junction
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: broadcasting
business
computing
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
physics
programming
radio
rail-transport
railways
sciences
television
transport
Etymology: From Latin iūnctiō (“union, joining, uniting”), from iungō (“join, attach together”). Equivalent to join + -tion.
Base: join
Affixes: -tion
Inflected forms:
form: junctions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: junctions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: junctioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: junctioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: junctioned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The act of joining, or the state of being joined.
pos: noun
examples: Their collaboration formed a fruitful junction of ideas.
gloss: A place where two things meet, especially where two roads meet.
pos: noun
examples: Turn left at the next road junction.
gloss: A place where two or more railways or railroads meet.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: The boundary between two physically different materials, especially between conductors, semiconductors, or metals.
pos: noun
gloss: The place where a distributary departs from the main stream.
pos: noun
gloss: A point in time between two unrelated consecutive broadcasts.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A kind of symbolic link to a directory.
pos: noun
gloss: In the Raku programming language, a construct representing a composite of several values connected by an operator.
pos: noun
gloss: electrical junction: a point or area where multiple conductors or semiconductors make physical contact.
pos: noun
gloss: To form a junction.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: critical junction
symbolic junction
The company is at a critical junction in its development.
Synonyms: combination
composite
conjunction
fusion
junction
juncture
melding
merger
unification
union
unity
Antonyms: cleft
disjoint
disjunct
disjunction
disunification
disunion
dysjunction
malunion
misunion
separation
Related words: crossroad
intersection
juncture
disjoin
disjointed
disjunctive
disjunctive normal form
dysjunctive
connection
link
Derived words: abjunction
adherens junction
annular gap junction
Apache Junction
Archdale Junction
Battersby Junction
Bondi Junction
box junction
break junction
Brunswick Junction
Burren Junction
burrowing junction
Carstairs Junction
cavo-atrial junction
cavoatrial 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
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
Translations:
lang: Esperanto
word: vojkruciĝo
lang: Turkish
word: makas
lang: Welsh
word: cyffordd