junction

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ʌŋkʃən

Noun

junction (plural junctions)

1. The act of joining, or the state of being joined.
2. A place where two things meet, especially where two roads meet.
3. The boundary between two physically different materials, especially between conductors, semiconductors, or metals.
4. (nautical) The place where a distributary departs from the main stream.

Synonyms

• (place where two things meet): intersection

Derived terms

• depletion junction
• junction box
• junction canal
• junction detector
• junction diode
• junction gate
• junction nevus
• junction table
• junction transistor
• p-n junction

Translations

the act of joining

• Dutch: samenkomst f, samenvloeiing f, aansluiting f
• French: jonction (fr) f
• German: Kreuzung (de) f
• Greek: ένωση (el) (énosi) f
• Japanese: 接合 (ja) (setsugō)

• Latin: iūnctiō (la) f
• Romanian: joncțiune (ro)
• Russian: соединение (ru) (sojedinenije) (soedinenie) n, объединение (ru) (obʺjedinenije) (ob'edinenie) n
• Serbo-Croatian: spoj (sh) m

a place where two things meet

• Armenian: հանգույց (hy) (hanguyc’)
• Czech: křižovatka (cs) f
• Dutch: knooppunt n verbindingspunt n, aansluiting f, samenkomst f
• French: jonction f
• German: Kreuzung (de) f, Knotenpunkt (de) m
• Hebrew: צומת (he) (tsomet) m

• Hungarian: kereszteződés (hu)
• Irish: acomhal (ga) m
• Japanese: 合流点 (ja) (gōryūten), ジャンクション (ja) (jyankushon)
• Russian: соединение (ru) (sojedinenije) (soedinenie) n, перекрёсток (ru) (perekrjóstok) n
• Swedish: knutpunkt (sv), vägkors (sv)

the boundary between two materials

• Dutch: las (nl) f, voeg (nl) f, naad (nl) f
• German: Grenzzone (de) f

• Japanese: 接点 (ja) (setten), for semiconductors 接合 (ja) (setsugō)
• Russian: соединение (ru) (sojedinenije) (soedinenie) n