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

• Romanian: joncțiune (ro)
• Russian: соединение (ru) n (sojedinenije), объединение (ru) n (obʺjedinenije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: спо̑ј m

  Roman: spȏj m

a place where two things meet

• Armenian: հանգույց (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)
• Russian: соединение (ru) n (sojedinenije), перекрёсток (ru) n (perekrjóstok)
• Spanish: juntura (es) f
• Swedish: knutpunkt (sv), vägkors

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 (setsugō)
• Russian: соединение (ru) n (sojedinenije)