junction

/ˈd͡ʒʌŋkʃən/

junction noun: the act of joining, or the state of being joined.

Noun

junction (plural junctions)

The act of joining, or the state of being joined.
- Their collaboration formed a fruitful junction of ideas.
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juncture
A place where two things meet, especially where two roads meet.
- Turn left at the next road junction.
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juncture
A place where two or more railways or railroads meet.
- The two rail lines meet at a major junction.
- In the mid-1930s, when Stalin was looking to make a statement with his new Metro, he consulted Underground engineers, who offered advice to the Russian Minister in charge of the Metro project, Nikita Khrushchev. He was severely told: 'Don't have a Circle Line - too many flat junctions.' Moscow did...2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 66
The boundary between two physically different materials, especially between conductors, semiconductors, or metals.
The place where a distributary departs from the main stream.
A point in time between two unrelated consecutive broadcasts.
- Even rolling news has junctions to meet - headlines on the hour or half-hour, or links to live events, for example.2007, Gary Hudson, Sarah Rowlands, The Broadcast Journalism Handbook, page 336
- Try to avoid becoming too predictable or repetitive, particularly at regular junctions.2010, Peter Stewart, Essential Radio Skills: How to Present a Radio Show
(Microsoft Windows) A kind of symbolic link to a directory.
In the Raku programming language, a construct representing a composite of several values connected by an operator.
electrical junction: a point or area where multiple conductors or semiconductors make physical contact.

Verb

junction (third-person singular simple present junctions, present participle junctioning, simple past and past participle junctioned)

(figuratively) To form a junction.
- critical junction
- symbolic junction

Proper noun capitalized: Junction

Junction

A village in Gallatin County, Illinois, United States.
A city, the county seat of Kimble County, Texas, United States.
A small town, the county seat of Piute County, Utah, United States.
An unincorporated community in Clark County, Wisconsin, United States.

junction meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

junction in Hindi

junction: जंक्शन jaṅkśan

junction in Tamil

இணைப்பிடம், இணைப்பு, கூடல், சந்தி, சந்திப்பு

junction in Marathi

a place where two things meet: जोड joḍ, सांधा sāndhā, संगम saṅgam

junction in Urdu

junction, juncture, adjacency: اتصال ittisāl

More languagesFewer languages

junction in Bengali: জংশন joṅśon
junction in Telugu: యోగము yōgamu, అతుకు atuku, కూడిక kūḍika, చేరిక cērika
junction in Malayalam: കവല kavala
junction in Kannada: ಸಂಗಮ, ಸಂಧಿ, ಸೇರುವುದು, ಕೂಡಲ್
junction in Punjabi: ਜੰਕਸ਼ਨ
junction in Gujarati: જંકશન, જંક્શન
junction in Odia: ଜଙ୍କସନ୍, ଜଙ୍କସନ, ଜଙ୍କ୍ସନ୍
junction in Sanskrit: संधि saṃdhí, समस्या samasyā, संहिता saṃ-hitā, युक्त yuktá
junction in Nepali: जङ्क्सन, जङ्सन, जंक्शन
junction in Malay: simpangan
junction in Indonesian: sambungan
junction in Persian: پیوند peyvand
junction in Vietnamese: giao điểm

Examples of junction in a sentence

The company is at a critical junction in its development.
He was severely told: 'Don't have a Circle Line - too many flat junctions.' Moscow did build a circle line, but with flying junctions, by which one track goes over another.2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 66:

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Synonyms of junction

Antonyms

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Forms of junction

Noun
plural	junctions
Verb
third-person singular present	junctions
present participle	junctioning
past participle	junctioned
past	junctioned

Plural of junction: junctions

Origin of junction

From Latin iūnctiō (“union, joining, uniting”), from iungō (“join, attach together”). Equivalent to join + -tion.

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Questions about junction

What does junction mean?: Junction means the act of joining, or the state of being joined.
What is junction in Hindi?: Junction in Hindi is जंक्शन (jaṅkśan). See Junction meaning in Hindi.
How do you use junction in a sentence?: The company is at a critical junction in its development.
What part of speech is junction?: Junction can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce junction?: Junction is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒʌŋkʃən/.
What is the plural of junction?: The plural of junction is junctions.

Words near junction in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: junction (page history and authors); Junction (page history and authors); जंक्शन (Hindi) (page history and authors); junction (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); اتصال (Urdu) (page history and authors); জংশন (Bengali) (page history and authors); అతుకు (Telugu) (page history and authors); junction (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); junction (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); junction (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); junction (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); युक्त (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); junction (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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