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Junction   /dʒˈəŋkʃən/   Listen
Junction

noun
1.
The place where two or more things come together.
2.
The state of being joined together.  Synonyms: colligation, conjugation, conjunction.
3.
The shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made.  Synonyms: articulation, join, joint, juncture.
4.
Something that joins or connects.  Synonym: conjunction.
5.
An act of joining or adjoining things.  Synonym: adjunction.



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"Junction" Quotes from Famous Books



... narrow, lofty prison, like an apartment in a tower. High up, in one corner, the grim stone walls were pierced by a grated opening, which let in air and light. Seated on the floor, in the angle formed by the junction of two walls, we saw the superintendent's "lucky lunatic" at work, with a truss of loose straw on either side of him. The slanting rays of light from the high window streamed down on his prematurely gray hair, and showed us the strange yellow pallor ...
— Jezebel • Wilkie Collins
... understand that she did not want to meet Fyne. And when I mentioned in a discreet murmur that he had come because of her letter she glanced at the hotel door quickly, and moved off a few steps to a position where she could watch the entrance without being seen. I followed her. At the junction of the two thoroughfares she stopped in the thin traffic of the broad pavement and turned to me with an air of challenge. "And ...
— Chance - A Tale in Two Parts • Joseph Conrad
... actively engaged in running and marking the boundary line between the United States and Mexico. It was stated in the last annual report of the Secretary of the Interior that the initial point on the Pacific and the point of junction of the Gila with the Colorado River had been determined and the intervening line, about 150 miles in length, run and marked by temporary monuments. Since that time a monument of marble has been erected at the initial point, and ...
— State of the Union Addresses of Millard Fillmore • Millard Fillmore
... New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislature of the States concerned as well as of ...
— The Fathers of the Constitution - Volume 13 in The Chronicles Of America Series • Max Farrand
... Perrot to visit all the tribes of the north and west, in order to establish or cement with them relations of trade or friendship, and to entrust Father Marquette and M. Joliet with the mission of exploring the course of the Mississippi. The two travellers carried their exploration as far as the junction of this river with the Arkansas, but their provisions failing them, they had to retrace ...
— The Makers of Canada: Bishop Laval • A. Leblond de Brumath


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