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Gazetteer
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Population (2000): 177 Housing Units (2000): 104 Land area (2000): 14.380676 sq. miles (37.245777 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.579905 sq. miles (1.501948 sq. km) Total area (2000): 14.960581 sq. miles (38.747725 sq. km) FIPS code: 39590 Located within: ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1711, "act of joining," from Latin iunctionem (nominative iunctio ), noun of action from past participle stem of iungere "to join together" (see jugular ). Meaning "place where things meet" first attested 1836, American English, originally in reference ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of joining, or the state of being joined. 2 A place where two things meet, especially where two roads meet. 3 The boundary between two physically different materials, especially between conductors, semiconductors, or metals. 4 (context nautical ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Junction is a 2012 American thriller film written and directed by Tony Glazer . The film stars Neal Bledsoe , Summer Crockett Moore , Tom Pelphrey and Harris Doran with David Zayas , Michael O'Keefe and Anthony Ruivivar in supporting roles. Desperate to ...
Usage examples of junction.
In the meantime we may follow the unhappy fortunes of the small column which had, as already described, been sent out by Sir George White in order, if possible, to prevent the junction of the two Boer armies, and at the same time to threaten the right wing of the main force, which was advancing from the direction of Dundee, Sir George White throughout the campaign consistently displayed one quality which is a charming one in an individual, but may be dangerous in a commander.
Beginning on the 17th with an attack on a ten-mile front between Tracy-le-Val and Vingre he had steadily pushed on until by the 23rd his left flank held the Oise as far as its junction with the Ailette and his front faced the latter canalized river as far as Guny.
This junction produced a complicated pattern of lobes and saddles that is frequently seen in the ammonite fossils found today in Cretaceous marine deposits.
In all probability there was, according to the usual plan of Norman churches, a tower at the junction of the nave and transepts, and beyond this an apsidal choir.
At the hubs and junctions of the irrigation system, Auger made out the off-white sprawl of cities and townships, the tentative scratches of roads and the lines of tethered dirigibles.
If either of these alternative definitions is adopted as the definition of junction, the other definition appears as an axiom respecting the character of junction as we know it in nature.
The axon of a neuron may make a junction not only with another neuron but also with some organ to which it carries its impulse, usually a muscle.
De Wet himself escaped and attempted a junction with Beyers who had fled south from the Transvaal.
He laughed, and I remembered how the sound of his laughter had boomed in that wet, snowy drive from Whitehorse across to Haines Junction, how his teeth had shown white against the black of the forest streaming by.
Ganil under his breath when Caid slowed at a junction of identical corridors on the next floor.
He passed through the whole Chaco, descending the Pilcomayo to its junction with the Paraguay, through territories but little explored even to-day.
Now and then my touch would reveal a doorless intersecting passage, and I several times encountered junctions with two, three, and four diverging avenues.
Her body, with its angular contours, its unexpected junctions of mucous membrane and hairline, detrusor muscle and erectile tissue, was a ripening anthology of perverse possibilities.
McAdams Junction isolates the erratum and writes in to the papers about it.
After exhorting the Moslems to confide in the aid of God and his apostle, Abubeker resolved, by a vigorous attack, to prevent the junction of the rebels.