junction
a place or point where two or more things are joined, as a seam or joint.
a place or point where two or more things meet or converge.
a place or station where railroad lines meet, cross, or diverge.
an intersection of streets, highways, or roads.
something that joins other things together: He used the device as a junction between the branch circuit and the main power lines.
Origin of junction
1synonym study For junction
Other words for junction
Other words from junction
- junc·tion·al, adjective
- in·ter·junc·tion, noun
Words that may be confused with junction
- junction , juncture (see synonym study at the current entry)
Words Nearby junction
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How to use junction in a sentence
Few people outside Georgia had even heard of the regional railroad junction town before the start of the war.
Atlanta’s Fall Foretold The End Of Civil War Bloodshed | Marc Wortman | September 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTToledo is a tough city, a factory town, a freight train junction, a lake steamer port.
The vehicle landed and traveled another 82 feet before striking a telephone junction box.
The Cops Who Found Out the Truth About GM's Deadly Cars—in 2006 | Michael Daly | July 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTEasily overlooked at a road junction is a small hand-painted sign, Aout, 1944.
Her friend asked her to meet her at a nearby junction, but disappeared.
It was found afterwards that the rebels meant to fight the two British forces in detail before they could effect a junction.
The Red Year | Louis TracyThe upper block was left a little thicker, the junction or root of the neck necessitating this.
Antonio Stradivari | Horace William PetherickParliament had sanctioned a junction, but not such a junction, the Midland said, as it was proposed to make.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph TatlowTrieste and Grz were taken; the junction with Marmont was speedily effected, and the combined forces hurried on towards Vienna.
Napoleon's Marshals | R. P. Dunn-PattisonIt lay three miles below town, at the junction of the north and south branches of Coldriver.
Scattergood Baines | Clarence Budington Kelland
British Dictionary definitions for junction
/ (ˈdʒʌŋkʃən) /
a place where several routes, lines, or roads meet, link, or cross each other: a railway junction
a point on a motorway where traffic may leave or join it
electronics
a contact between two different metals or other materials: a thermocouple junction
a transition region between regions of differing electrical properties in a semiconductor: a p-n junction
a connection between two or more conductors or sections of transmission lines
the act of joining or the state of being joined
Origin of junction
1Derived forms of junction
- junctional, adjective
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