junction

Meaning

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.

junction station

communications hub

key position

link-up

meeting point

road junction

siamese

street crossing

welded joint

coming together

parting of the ways

subscriber line

system interchange

branch road

division point

parting of ways

connection point

catination

contact point

survey junction

intimate union

cross fertilization

branch-off

contact junction

point of convergence

branch duct

major node

sink flow

association trail

linked deal

affluence

connected with

cross-road

cross roads

interconnection

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈd͡ʒʌŋkʃən/

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

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