junction
See also: Junction
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin iūnctiō (“union, joining, uniting”), from iungō (“join, attach together”). Equivalent to join + -tion.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editjunction (plural junctions)
- The act of joining, or the state of being joined.
- A place where two things meet, especially where two roads meet.
- (rail transport) A place where two or more railways or railroads meet.
- 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 66:
- 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.
- The boundary between two physically different materials, especially between conductors, semiconductors, or metals.
- (nautical) The place where a distributary departs from the main stream.
- (radio, television) A point in time between two unrelated consecutive broadcasts.
- 2007, Gary Hudson, Sarah Rowlands, The Broadcast Journalism Handbook, page 336:
- Even rolling news has junctions to meet - headlines on the hour or half-hour, or links to live events, for example.
- 2010, Peter Stewart, Essential Radio Skills: How to Present a Radio Show:
- Try to avoid becoming too predictable or repetitive, particularly at regular junctions.
- (computing, Microsoft Windows) A kind of symbolic link to a directory.
- (programming) In the Raku programming language, a construct representing a composite of several values connected by an operator.
- (electronics) electrical junction: a point or area where multiple conductors or semiconductors make physical contact.
Synonyms
editAntonyms
editDerived terms
edit- abjunction
- adherens junction
- Apache Junction
- Battersby Junction
- Bondi Junction
- box junction
- break junction
- burrowing junction
- Carstairs Junction
- cavoatrial junction
- cavo-atrial junction
- Chard Junction
- Clapham Junction
- cross junction
- Davis Junction
- Davis Junction
- depletion junction
- diamond junction
- dysjunction
- flat junction
- flying junction
- gap junction
- Grand 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
- 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
- Winona Junction
- X-junction
- Yarra Junction
- Y-junction
Descendants
editTranslations
editthe act of joining
|
a place where two things meet
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the boundary between two materials
See also
editVerb
editjunction (third-person singular simple present junctions, present participle junctioning, simple past and past participle junctioned)
- (of roads or tracks) To form a junction.
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