junction

noun

1. 1

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

   Their collaboration formed a fruitful junction of ideas.

2. 2

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

   Turn left at the next road junction.

3. 3

   A place where two or more railways or railroads meet.

   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.

4. 4

   The boundary between two physically different materials, especially between conductors, semiconductors, or metals.

5. 5

   The place where a distributary departs from the main stream.

6. 6

   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.

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

7. 7

   A kind of symbolic link to a directory.

8. 8

   In the Raku programming language, a construct representing a composite of several values connected by an operator.

9. 9

   electrical junction: a point or area where multiple conductors or semiconductors make physical contact.

verb

1. 1

   figurativeTo form a junction.

   critical junction

   symbolic junction

   The company is at a critical junction in its development.

Forms

plural

junctions

past tense

junctioned

past participle

junctioned

present participle

junctioning

third person singular

junctions