Junction
noun
A place where two or more roads, lines or parts meet.
The accident happened at a busy road junction.
Often appears as...
- road junction
- junction box
noun
The action of joining; the state of being joined.
The junction of the two rivers was a sight to behold.
Often appears as...
- junction of rivers
- the junction of different ideas
noun
An electronic component that joins two conductors to allow current flow between them.
The transistor is a semiconductor device with three layers and two junctions.
Often appears as...
- p-n junction
- junction transistor
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A point where nerve cells connect with each other.
Every impulse was transmitted through the nerve junction.
Often appears as...
- synaptic junction
- neuromuscular junction
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A place where two or more roads, lines or parts meet.
The accident happened at a busy road junction.
Often appears as...
- road junction
- junction box
noun
The action of joining; the state of being joined.
The junction of the two rivers was a sight to behold.
Often appears as...
- junction of rivers
- the junction of different ideas
noun
An electronic component that joins two conductors to allow current flow between them.
The transistor is a semiconductor device with three layers and two junctions.
Often appears as...
- p-n junction
- junction transistor
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A point where nerve cells connect with each other.
Every impulse was transmitted through the nerve junction.
Often appears as...
- synaptic junction
- neuromuscular junction
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Traffic Context
Often used when discussing traffic, navigation, or driving directions in daily life.
Turn left at the next junction to reach the library.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Cross
Junctions can be T-shaped or Y-shaped, not just crossroads; consider all connecting points.
Follow the road until you reach a T-junction, then turn right.
Pro Tip 3/3Spatial Orientation
Use 'junction' to describe spatial relationships between streets, enhancing map understanding.
The map shows a junction where Park Avenue intersects with Fifth Street.
Compare with
confluentconnectioncrossroadsintersectionjoinlinkagemerge
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Fire Aboard the Hot Tuna...
what wait a minute what let's defeat that's the hot in right the block melted but why it didn't help that little Junction thing a little box melted wall the junction box which connects the power coming out of the generator to the panel started to melt because of a loose connection if I hadn't smelled it spotted it when I
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The reality constructed...
universities the universe lowered the sky joins them the clouds bursting in among them with a bit brought up with a broad promise of rain the key to the crowd lay asleep in a sofas cassock pocket and no one wanted to be opened no not to be shut when they reach the airport Junction the police thought it
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What hallucination...
or that's how people think about it. There is also a rare thing called temporal lobe epilepsy, and sometimes, if one has this, one may feel oneself transported back to a time and place in the past. You're at a particular road junction. You smell chestnuts roasting.
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The history of keeping...
generally based on the local time of its headquarters, and the railroad's train schedules were published using its own time. Some major railroad junctions served by several different railroads had a separate clock for each railroad, each showing a different time.
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How do solar panels...
Here's the a silicon solar cell uses two different layers of silicon. An n-type silicon has extra electrons, and p-type silicon has extra spaces for electrons, called holes. Where the two types of silicon meet, electrons can wander across the p/n junction,
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How transistors work -...
a special region called a P-N junction forms between the emitter and base. It only conducts electricity when a voltage exceeding a certain threshold is applied. Otherwise, it remains switched off. In this way, small variations in the input voltage
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"The Hellhole of...
lies at the junction of three continental plates which spread further each year possibly the oldest living lava lake and one of the lowest points on the planet geologists here can study the processes that form the world
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What causes heartburn? -...
the anti-reflux barrier of the gastroesophageal junction that normally protects against heartburn. Numerous medications, including those for asthma, high blood pressure, birth control, and depression
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World's Largest...
the north and that their junction that is food in abundance these black-browed albatross are duck diving for krill that has been driven up to the surface like all Albatross black brows are
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Can you solve the temple...
You know this is the last junction before the exit, but your trail markings have been erased, and no one remembers the way. If nine of you split up, there should be just enough time
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Fire Aboard the Hot Tuna...
what wait a minute what let's defeat that's the hot in right the block melted but why it didn't help that little Junction thing a little box melted wall the junction box which connects the power coming out of the generator to the panel started to melt because of a loose connection if I hadn't smelled it spotted it when I
Video examples
The reality constructed...
universities the universe lowered the sky joins them the clouds bursting in among them with a bit brought up with a broad promise of rain the key to the crowd lay asleep in a sofas cassock pocket and no one wanted to be opened no not to be shut when they reach the airport Junction the police thought it
Video examples
What hallucination...
or that's how people think about it. There is also a rare thing called temporal lobe epilepsy, and sometimes, if one has this, one may feel oneself transported back to a time and place in the past. You're at a particular road junction. You smell chestnuts roasting.
Video examples
The history of keeping...
generally based on the local time of its headquarters, and the railroad's train schedules were published using its own time. Some major railroad junctions served by several different railroads had a separate clock for each railroad, each showing a different time.
Video examples
How do solar panels...
Here's the a silicon solar cell uses two different layers of silicon. An n-type silicon has extra electrons, and p-type silicon has extra spaces for electrons, called holes. Where the two types of silicon meet, electrons can wander across the p/n junction,
Video examples
How transistors work -...
a special region called a P-N junction forms between the emitter and base. It only conducts electricity when a voltage exceeding a certain threshold is applied. Otherwise, it remains switched off. In this way, small variations in the input voltage
Video examples
"The Hellhole of...
lies at the junction of three continental plates which spread further each year possibly the oldest living lava lake and one of the lowest points on the planet geologists here can study the processes that form the world
Video examples
What causes heartburn? -...
the anti-reflux barrier of the gastroesophageal junction that normally protects against heartburn. Numerous medications, including those for asthma, high blood pressure, birth control, and depression
Video examples
World's Largest...
the north and that their junction that is food in abundance these black-browed albatross are duck diving for krill that has been driven up to the surface like all Albatross black brows are
Video examples
Can you solve the temple...
You know this is the last junction before the exit, but your trail markings have been erased, and no one remembers the way. If nine of you split up, there should be just enough time
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Samantha Shannon
British Writer
In 2011, I did an internship in Seven Dials, a junction in London where seven roads come together. I'd given up on writing after multiple rejections for my first novel, and I was starting to consider a career in publishing instead, but Seven Dials gave me such a strong idea for a setting that I couldn't resist picking up my pen again.
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Ehud Olmert
Israeli Politician
The Palestinians are facing a historic junction at which they will have to decide whether they want to remain stuck in a corner of extreme fundamentalism, which will cut them off from the entire world, or whether they are ready to take the necessary steps. My role is to assist in building this process.
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Cornelia Parker
English Artist
I was involved in a serious accident driving in torrential rain at midnight in Cardiff. I was only doing five miles an hour, but because I couldn't see very well, I crossed a junction and collided with another car that was driving very fast. I ended up in hospital for six weeks with a shattered pelvis.
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Isamu Akasaki
Japanese Scientist
Very many researchers, including the front runners in gallium nitride, abandoned the development of gallium nitride-based devices. I have devoted myself to the study of crystal growth, aiming at the development of the p-n junction of gallium nitride.
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Glen Hansard
Irish Musician
If you stand still in any city long enough, you see everyone pass you by. So you're in Chicago. If you stand on the corner of Belmont and Clark, and you do that for three years, you'll pretty much have seen everybody in Chicago pass that junction.
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Bruce Catton
American Historian
The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you.
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David Hepworth
British Journalist
Back in the 1980s, state-of-the-nation fictions were all set in Manhattan. Now, they're all in Trump country. Early in 'S-Town,' we're introduced to an actual maze, every branch of which leads to a further junction. This may also be a metaphor.
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Steven Gundry
American Author
Lectins bind to receptors on the surface of each cell lining the gut, breaking down the tight junctions that normally make an impenetrable barrier between the intestinal contents including bacteria and ourselves.
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David K. Shipler
American Author
Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.
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Timothy Morton
English Philosopher
Everything is a railway junction where past and future are sliding over one another, not touching.
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Samantha Shannon
British Writer
In 2011, I did an internship in Seven Dials, a junction in London where seven roads come together. I'd given up on writing after multiple rejections for my first novel, and I was starting to consider a career in publishing instead, but Seven Dials gave me such a strong idea for a setting that I couldn't resist picking up my pen again.
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Ehud Olmert
Israeli Politician
The Palestinians are facing a historic junction at which they will have to decide whether they want to remain stuck in a corner of extreme fundamentalism, which will cut them off from the entire world, or whether they are ready to take the necessary steps. My role is to assist in building this process.
Quote examples
Cornelia Parker
English Artist
I was involved in a serious accident driving in torrential rain at midnight in Cardiff. I was only doing five miles an hour, but because I couldn't see very well, I crossed a junction and collided with another car that was driving very fast. I ended up in hospital for six weeks with a shattered pelvis.
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Isamu Akasaki
Japanese Scientist
Very many researchers, including the front runners in gallium nitride, abandoned the development of gallium nitride-based devices. I have devoted myself to the study of crystal growth, aiming at the development of the p-n junction of gallium nitride.
Quote examples
Glen Hansard
Irish Musician
If you stand still in any city long enough, you see everyone pass you by. So you're in Chicago. If you stand on the corner of Belmont and Clark, and you do that for three years, you'll pretty much have seen everybody in Chicago pass that junction.
Quote examples
Bruce Catton
American Historian
The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you.
Quote examples
David Hepworth
British Journalist
Back in the 1980s, state-of-the-nation fictions were all set in Manhattan. Now, they're all in Trump country. Early in 'S-Town,' we're introduced to an actual maze, every branch of which leads to a further junction. This may also be a metaphor.
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Steven Gundry
American Author
Lectins bind to receptors on the surface of each cell lining the gut, breaking down the tight junctions that normally make an impenetrable barrier between the intestinal contents including bacteria and ourselves.
Quote examples
David K. Shipler
American Author
Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.
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Timothy Morton
English Philosopher
Everything is a railway junction where past and future are sliding over one another, not touching.
Example 1 of 10
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