name
Meaning 1
A village in Gallatin County, Illinois, United States.
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name
A village in Gallatin County, Illinois, United States.
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name
A city, the county seat of Kimble County, Texas, United States.
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name
A small town, the county seat of Piute County, Utah, United States.
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An unincorporated community in Clark County, Wisconsin, United States.
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noun
The act of joining, or the state of being joined.
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noun
A place where two things meet, especially where two roads meet.
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A place where two or more railways or railroads meet.
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Topics: rail-transport, railways, transport
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noun
The boundary between two physically different materials, especially between conductors, semiconductors, or metals.
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noun
The place where a distributary departs from the main stream.
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Topics: nautical, transport
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noun
A point in time between two unrelated consecutive broadcasts.
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Topics: broadcasting, media, radio, television
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noun
A kind of symbolic link to a directory.
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Qualifier: Microsoft Windows
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
In the Raku programming language, a construct representing a composite of several values connected by an operator.
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Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, programming, sciences
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noun
electrical junction: a point or area where multiple conductors or semiconductors make physical contact.
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Topics: business, electrical-engineering, electricity, electromagnetism, electronics, energy, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
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verb
To form a junction.
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Usage: figuratively
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noun
an act of joining or adjoining things
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Synonyms: adjunction
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Broader terms: joining, connection, connexion
noun
the place where two or more things come together
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Broader terms: topographic point, place, spot
Narrower terms: interchange, intersection, crossroad, crossway, crossing, carrefour, railway junction, T-junction, traffic circle, circle, rotary, roundabout
noun
something that joins or connects
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Synonyms: conjunction
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Broader terms: connection, connexion, connector, connecter, connective
Narrower terms: contact, tangency, joint, junction barrier, barrier strip, splice, splicing, thermojunction
noun
the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made
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Synonyms: articulation, join, joint, juncture
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Broader terms: connection, connexion, link
Narrower terms: esophagogastric junction, oesophagogastric junction
noun
the state of being joined together
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Synonyms: conjunction, conjugation, colligation
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Broader terms: union, unification
Narrower terms: anastomosis, inosculation, synapse
History
From Latin iūnctiō (“union, joining, uniting”), from iungō (“join, attach together”). Equivalent to join + -tion.
Across languages
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