junction
/ˈd͡ʒʌŋkʃən/ noun B2- The act of joining, or the state of being joined. · Their collaboration formed a fruitful junction of ideas.
- A place where two things meet, especially where two roads meet. · Turn left at the next road junction.
- A place where two or more railways or railroads meet. · The two rail lines meet at a major junction.
- 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.
Plural junctions
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“The trains which traverse the lines of rail beside which the body was found are those which run from west to east, some being purely Metropolitan, and some from Willesden and outlying junctions.
Aldgate is a junction, and there was a network of points.
Holmes was sunk in profound thought, and hardly opened his mouth until we had passed Clapham Junction.
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