junction
noun
- a joining or being joined
- a place or point of joining or crossing, as of highways or railroads
- an interface between materials having different characteristics, as the pn junction in a semiconductor or the boundary between two metals in a thermocouple
See junction in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(jŭngkˈshən)
noun- The act or process of joining or the condition of being joined.
- A place where two things join or meet, especially a place where two roads or railway routes come together and one terminates.
- A transition layer or boundary between two different materials or between physically different regions in a single material, especially:
a. A connection between conductors or sections of a transmission line.
b. The interface between two different semiconductor regions in a semiconductor device.
c. A mechanical or alloyed contact between different metals or other materials, as in a thermocouple.
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