junction

Meaning

Noun

1. The act of joining, or the state of being joined.
2. A place where two things meet, especially where two roads meet.
3. A place where two or more railways or railroads meet.
4. The boundary between two physically different materials, especially between conductors, semiconductors, or metals.
5. The place where a distributary departs from the main stream.
6. A point in time between two unrelated consecutive broadcasts.
7. A kind of symbolic link to a directory.
8. In the Raku programming language, a construct representing a composite of several values connected by an operator.
9. electrical junction: a point or area where multiple conductors or semiconductors make physical contact.

Verb

To form a junction.

Synonyms

union

connection

intersection

crossroads

joint

joining

combination

juncture

confluence

join

conjunction

crossing

crossroad

link

🔗

meeting

fork

contact

center

head

coupling

fusion

junction station

linking

knot

🪢

adjunction

bond

center

coalition

colligation

coordination

centre

tie

amalgamation

node

splice

communications hub

connexion

attachment

connect

association

conjugation

hookup

hub

articulation

interchange

interface

coherence

blending

articulate

coalescence

Translations

aansluiting

Knotenpunkt

jonction

Verbindung

junção

cruce

carrefour

embranchement

Kreuzung

unión

giuntura

samenkomst

vereniging

ένωση

giunzione

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈd͡ʒʌŋkʃən/

Etymology

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