junction

Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒʌŋkʃən/

The English word “junction” has 10 meanings listed here.

noun

The act of joining, or the state of being joined.
A place where two things meet, especially where two roads meet.
A place where two or more railways or railroads meet.
The boundary between two physically different materials, especially between conductors, semiconductors, or metals.
The place where a distributary departs from the main stream.
A point in time between two unrelated consecutive broadcasts.
A kind of symbolic link to a directory.
In the Raku programming language, a construct representing a composite of several values connected by an operator.
electrical junction: a point or area where multiple conductors or semiconductors make physical contact.

From Latin iūnctiō (“union, joining, uniting”), from iungō (“join, attach together”). Equivalent to join + -tion.

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