junction

Speech parts

1. junction - Noun

2. junction - Verb

3. Junction - Proper noun

Meaning

The act of joining, or the state of being joined; union; combination; coalition; as, the junction of two armies or detachments; the junction of paths.

The place or point of union, meeting, or junction; specifically, the place where two or more lines of railway meet or cross.

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Examples

We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor... Larry Wall

Bleaching my hair for Two Moon Junction... my hair was fried and I looked like an idiot. Sherilyn Fenn

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. David K. Shipler

We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville. Jim Butcher

I think the key image of the 20th century is the man in the motor car. It sums up everything: the elements of speed, drama, aggression, the junction of advertising and consumer goods with the technological landscape. J. G. Ballard

In short, penal reform was born at the point of junction between the struggle against the super-power of the sovereign and that against the infra-power of acquired and tolerated illegalities. Michel Foucault

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