junction

plural junctions

1. The act of joining, or the state of being joined.

   Their collaboration formed a fruitful junction of ideas.

   Synonyms: juncture

2. A place where two things meet, especially where two roads meet.

   Turn left at the next road junction.

   Synonyms: juncture

3. rail transportA place where two or more railways or railroads meet.

   The two rail lines meet at a major junction.

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   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.

   2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 66

4. The boundary between two physically different materials, especially between conductors, semiconductors, or metals.
5. nauticalThe place where a distributary departs from the main stream.
6. broadcastingA point in time between two unrelated consecutive broadcasts.

   Try to avoid becoming too predictable or repetitive, particularly at regular junctions.

   2010, Peter Stewart, Essential Radio Skills: How to Present a Radio Show

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   Even rolling news has junctions to meet - headlines on the hour or half-hour, or links to live events, for example.

   2007, Gary Hudson, Sarah Rowlands, The Broadcast Journalism Handbook, page 336

7. Microsoft WindowscomputingA kind of symbolic link to a directory.
8. computingIn the Raku programming language, a construct representing a composite of several values connected by an operator.
9. businesselectrical junction: a point or area where multiple conductors or semiconductors make physical contact.

present singular third person junctions · participle present junctioning · participle past junctioned · past junctioned

1. figurativelyTo form a junction.

   critical junction

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   symbolic junction

   The company is at a critical junction in its development.

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2. A city, the county seat of Kimble County, Texas, United States.
3. A small town, the county seat of Piute County, Utah, United States.
4. An unincorporated community in Clark County, Wisconsin, United States.