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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024junc•ture /ˈdʒʌŋktʃɚ/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- a point of time, esp. one made important or critical by circumstances that come together:At this juncture, we must decide whether to continue negotiations.
- a place where two things are joined.
See -junc-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024junc•ture ( jungk′chər),USA pronunciation n. - a point of time, esp. one made critical or important by a concurrence of circumstances:At this juncture, we must decide whether to stay or to walk out.
- a serious state of affairs;
crisis:The matter has reached a juncture and a decision must be made. - the line or point at which two bodies are joined;
joint or articulation;
seam. - the act of joining.
- the state of being joined.
- something by which two things are joined.
- Phonetics
- a pause or other phonological feature or modification of a feature, as the lengthening of a preceding phoneme or the strengthening of a following one, marking a transition or break between sounds, esp. marking the phonological boundary of a word, clause, or sentence: it is present in such words as night-rate and re-seed and absent in such words as nitrate and recede. Cf. close juncture, open juncture, terminal juncture.
- the point in a word or group of words at which such a pause or other junctural marker occurs.
- Latin junctūra, equivalent. to junct(us) (see junction) + -ūra -ure
- Middle English 1350–1400
- 1, 3.See corresponding entry in Unabridged See junction.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: juncture /ˈdʒʌŋktʃə/ n - a point in time, esp a critical one (often in the phrase at this juncture)
- the set of phonological features signalling a division between words, such as those that distinguish a name from an aim
- a less common word for junction
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