junction

English

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.
5. (radio, television) A point in time between two unrelated consecutive broadcasts.
   • 2007, Gary Hudson, Sarah Rowlands, The Broadcast Journalism Handbook (page 336)

     Even rolling news has junctions to meet - headlines on the hour or half-hour, or links to live events, for example.

   • 2010, Peter Stewart, Essential Radio Skills: How to Present a Radio Show

     Try to avoid becoming too predictable or repetitive, particularly at regular junctions.

6. (computing, Microsoft Windows) A kind of symbolic link to a directory.

Synonyms

• (place where two things meet): intersection

Derived terms

Terms derived from junction

• Clapham Junction
• depletion junction
• Grand Junction
• junction box
• junction canal

• junction detector
• junction diode
• junction gate
• junction nevus
• junction point

• junction table
• junction transistor
• p-n junction
• T-junction

See also

• crossroad
• intersection

Translations

the act of joining

• Dutch: samenkomst (nl) f, samenvloeiing f, aansluiting (nl) f
• French: jonction (fr) f
• Friulian: zontadure f
• German: Kreuzung (de) f
• Greek: ένωση (el) f (énosi)
• Italian: giunzione (it)
• Japanese: 接合 (ja) (setsugō)
• Latin: iūnctiō f

• Portuguese: junção (pt) f
• Romanian: joncțiune (ro)
• Russian: соедине́ние (ru) n (sojedinénije), объедине́ние (ru) n (obʺjedinénije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: спо̑ј m

  Roman: spȏj (sh) m

• Spanish: unión (es)

a place where two things meet

• Armenian: հանգույց (hy) (hanguycʿ)
• Czech: křižovatka (cs) f
• Dutch: knooppunt (nl) n verbindingspunt (nl) n, aansluiting (nl) f, samenkomst (nl) f
• French: jonction (fr) f
• German: Kreuzung (de) f, Knotenpunkt (de) m
• Hebrew: צומת‎ (he) m (tsomet)
• Hungarian: kereszteződés (hu)
• Irish: acomhal m

• Italian: incrocio (it) m
• Japanese: 合流点 (gōryūten), ジャンクション (jyankushon)
• Maori: pūruatanga, pūtahitanga, tūtakitanga, komititanga
• Portuguese: junção (pt) f, junta (pt) f
• Russian: соедине́ние (ru) n (sojedinénije), перекрёсток (ru) n (perekrjóstok)
• Spanish: juntura (es) f
• Swedish: knutpunkt (sv), vägkors
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

the boundary between two materials

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

• Japanese: 接点 (setten), for semiconductors 接合 (ja) (setsugō)
• Russian: соедине́ние (ru) n (sojedinénije)