junction
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- noun
- /ˈdʒʌŋkʃən/
- Most notorious for its traffic holdups, the motorway junction known as Ojuelegba is permanently packed.
- junction box
- formed at road junctions
- electrical junction
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Watch on YouTubeSo those tight junctions in their intestine become loose.
- So those tight junctions in their intestine become loose.
- So it does improve the tight junctions in the gut.
- The bike could come up and then discreetly you'd get through that junction.
- We don't like to be told that we must cross the road at traffic junction.
- Well, imagine the junction to be some object.
- It's a garden of forking paths and it many, many junctions in the road.
- But I'm at a fucking junction where cars need to come out and see the road.
Examples
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This is a live view of the canyon just south of Sommerton Junction.
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Get off junction 34, south side.
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Should be a major junction box about here.
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His body was found early this morning here under Junction Five.
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For a long time, I stared out at the junction of sky and water.
Fiction book (1994) -
But I need a ticket from Grand Junction, Colorado to Salem, Oregon.
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My country is a junction visisted by painters and poets.
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And we also have a report of an accident approximately half a mile west of the 605 junction of the Santa Ana Freeway.
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I was driving northbound on I-35 just south of the I-40 junction when my left front tire blew out.
Fiction book (2002) -
At the busy junction, cars from three different streets came together, creating a complex intersection.
Synonyms
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A place where two roads or streets cross
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A place where two roads or paths meet so people can go across
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A point where different lines or paths meet
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A place where two or more roads meet
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2.7
The place where two parts fit together
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A point where things are connected, like roads or ideas
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A place where two areas or groups meet and interact
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The place where two things meet and are fixed together
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A place where one road crosses another
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A place where two lines, roads, or edges meet
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A short form on signs for a place where roads or train lines meet
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A point where two lines meet to make a connection in electronics or networks
A connection between two things like pipes, cables, or train lines
Antonyms
Compounds
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An electronic part made from special material that makes signals stronger or turns them on and off
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A place where a nerve sends a signal to a muscle to make it move
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A boundary between two semiconductor parts that lets electric current flow one way
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A device that connects two wires or cables directly without plugs
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A condition where nerves cannot send messages to muscles, causing weakness
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The place where the tube that carries food from the throat meets the stomach
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An electrical part that changes a two-way flow of electricity into a one-way flow for power supplies
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A place where two different metal wires join and make a small electric signal to measure temperature
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Etymology
Junction comes from the old Latin root junct- meaning 'to join' and is like the simple word join. So a junction is the place where two or more things are joined together, such as roads, rivers, or railway lines.