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单词 junction
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
junc•tion /ˈdʒʌŋkʃən/USA pronunciation   n. [countable]
  1. a place or point where two or more things meet or are joined, such as a station where railroad lines meet, cross, or diverge, or an intersection of roads.
See -junc-.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
junc•tion  ( jungkshən),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. an act of joining;
    combining.
  2. the state of being joined;
    union.
  3. a place or point where two or more things are joined, as a seam or joint.
  4. a place or point where two or more things meet or converge.
  5. Rail Transporta place or station where railroad lines meet, cross, or diverge.
  6. Transportan intersection of streets, highways, or roads.
  7. something that joins other things together:He used the device as a junction between the branch circuit and the main power lines.
  • Latin junctiōn- (stem of junctiō), equivalent. to junct(us), past participle of jungere to join (jung- join + -tus past participle suffix) + -iōn- -ion
  • 1705–15
junction•al, adj. 
    • 3.See corresponding entry in Unabridged union, linkage, coupling; welt.
    • 7.See corresponding entry in Unabridged connection. Junction, juncture refer to a place, line, or point at which two or more things join. A junction is also a place where things come together:the junction of two rivers.A juncture is a line or point at which two bodies are joined, or a point of exigency or crisis in time:the juncture of the head and neck; a critical juncture in a struggle.

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
junction /ˈdʒʌŋkʃən/ n
  1. a place where several routes, lines, or roads meet, link, or cross each other: a railway junction
  2. a point on a motorway where traffic may leave or join it
  3. a contact between two different metals or other materials: a thermocouple junction
  4. a transition region between regions of differing electrical properties in a semiconductor
  5. the act of joining or the state of being joined
Etymology: 18th Century: from Latin junctiō a joining, from junctus joined, from jungere to join
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