Junction Definition

jŭngkshən
junctions
noun
junctions
A joining or being joined.
Webster's New World
A place or point of joining or crossing, as of highways or railroads.
Webster's New World
A place where two things join or meet, especially a place where two roads or railway routes come together and one terminates.
American Heritage
An interface between materials having different characteristics, as the pn junction in a semiconductor or the boundary between two metals in a thermocouple.
Webster's New World

(nautical) The place where a distributary departs from the main stream.

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Other Word Forms of Junction

Noun

Singular:
junction
Plural:
junctions

Origin of Junction

  • Latin iūnctiō iūnctiōn- from iūnctus past participle of iungere to join yeug- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin iūnctiō (“union, joining, uniting”), from iungō (“join, attach together”).

    From Wiktionary

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