Sekirov Dictionary

junction

/ˈd͡ʒʌŋkʃən/

noun 9
verb 1
forms 3

noun9

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A place where two things meet, especially where two roads meet.
- Turn left at the next road junction.
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A place where two or more railways or railroads meet.
- The two rail lines meet at a major junction.
The boundary between two physically different materials, especially between conductors, semiconductors, or metals.
The place where a distributary departs from the main stream.
electrical junction: a point or area where multiple conductors or semiconductors make physical contact.
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The act of joining, or the state of being joined.
- Their collaboration formed a fruitful junction of ideas.
A kind of symbolic link to a directory.
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A point in time between two unrelated consecutive broadcasts.
- Even rolling news has junctions to meet - headlines on the hour or half-hour, or links to live events, for example. — 2007
In the Raku programming language, a construct representing a composite of several values connected by an operator.

verb1

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To form a junction.
- The company is at a critical junction in its development.

forms

junctioned · junctioning · junctions

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