Meaning of Clapham Junction | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A major rail transport hub in south-west London, England, which has the distinction of being the busiest railway station in Britain.
2. Somewhere where many paths – either literal routes of travel or metaphorical lines – cross.
   figuratively, uncountable
3. The surrounding area in the London Borough of Wandsworth (OS grid ref TQ2775).

Examples

“It has never been satisfactorily explained how Clapham Junction came by its name. It is in Mid-Battersea, and is so indicated in Bradshaw.”

“When they had reached this Clapham Junction of the local highway system, Mr. Hayward halted a moment in doubt , and pointed ahead inquiringly to one out of the three main routes that branched off in various directions .”

“Dr. F. W. BUNTING favours more rigid isolation of actual cases and avoidance of large assemblies - particularly children's film matinées which he described as a Clapham Junction for virus dissemination.”

“The mouth of the Atlantic, between Ushant and the South of Ireland, is a Clapham Junction of the ocean trade routes.”

“All these can be grasped in half an hour by those who want to understand more clearly this Clapham Junction of the sciences that we call the digital computer.”

“Lizzie's face is a Clapham Junction of lines, wrinkles, shadows and tunnelling dirt.”

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