Junction
Definitions
- The act of joining, or the state of being joined.
- A village in Gallatin County, Illinois, United States.
- A place where two things meet, especially where two roads meet.
- A city, the county seat of Kimble County, Texas, United States.
- A place where two or more railways or railroads meet.
- A small town, the county seat of Piute County, Utah, United States.
- The boundary between two physically different materials, especially between conductors, semiconductors, or metals.
- An unincorporated community in Clark County, Wisconsin, United States.
- The place where a distributary departs from the main stream.
- A point in time between two unrelated consecutive broadcasts.
- A kind of symbolic link to a directory.
- In the Raku programming language, a construct representing a composite of several values connected by an operator.
- electrical junction: a point or area where multiple conductors or semiconductors make physical contact.
Equivalents
Françaisjonction
Examples
“Their collaboration formed a fruitful junction of ideas.”
“Turn⟳ left at the next road junction.”
“The two rail lines meet⟳ at a major junction.”
“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.”
“Even rolling news has junctions to meet⟳ - headlines on the hour or half-hour, or links to live⟳ events, for example.”
“Try⟳ to avoid⟳ becoming too predictable or repetitive, particularly at regular junctions.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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