Junction Definition

jŭngkshən
junctions
noun
junctions
A joining or being joined.
Webster's New World
A place or point of joining or crossing, as of highways or railroads.
Webster's New World
A place where two things join or meet, especially a place where two roads or railway routes come together and one terminates.
American Heritage
An interface between materials having different characteristics, as the pn junction in a semiconductor or the boundary between two metals in a thermocouple.
Webster's New World

(nautical) The place where a distributary departs from the main stream.

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Other Word Forms of Junction

Noun

Singular:
junction
Plural:
junctions

Origin of Junction

  • Latin iūnctiō iūnctiōn- from iūnctus past participle of iungere to join yeug- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin iūnctiō (“union, joining, uniting”), from iungō (“join, attach together”).

    From Wiktionary

Junction Sentence Examples

  • They're going back to Grand Junction tonight.

  • The place has become an important junction of the Great North of Scotland railway system.

  • Spain, in the province of Leon; situated near the right bank of the river Tuerto, and at the junction of the Salamanca-Corunna and Leon-Astorga railways.

  • Ts'ingtao is connected by railway with Chinan Fu, the capital of the province; a continuation of the same line provides for a junction with the main Lu-Han (Peking-Hankow) railway.

  • It lies at the junction of two streams, the Rother and Hipper, in a populous industrial district.

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Words Starting With

JJUJUN

Words Ending With

NONION

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junction

Words Starting With J and Ending With N

Starts With J & Ends With NStarts With JU & Ends With NStarts With J & Ends With ON

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8 Letter Words8 Letter Words Starting With J8 Letter Words Ending With N