Junction

Quick meaning: Junction is a noun meaning The act of joining, or the state of being joined.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. A place where two things meet, especially where two roads meet.
2. (rail transport) A place where two or more railways or railroads meet.
3. The boundary between two physically different materials, especially between conductors, semiconductors, or metals.
4. (nautical) The place where a distributary departs from the main stream.
5. (radio, television) A point in time between two unrelated consecutive broadcasts.
6. (computing, Microsoft Windows) A kind of symbolic link to a directory.
7. (programming) In the Raku programming language, a construct representing a composite of several values connected by an operator.

Example Sentences

critical junction

symbolic junction

Turn left at the next road junction.

The two rail lines meet at a major junction.

Word Forms

• junctions
• junctioning
• junctioned

Synonyms for junction

Depending on context, synonyms include combination, composite, conjunction, fusion, juncture, melding.

Antonyms for junction

Common opposites include cleft, disjoint, disjunct, disjunction, disunification, disunion.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include adjunction, conjunction, joint, meeting, join, juncture.

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