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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Junction \Junc"tion\, n. [L. junctio, fr. jungere, junctum, to join: cf. F. jonction. See Join.]
The act of joining, or the state of being joined; union; combination; coalition; as, the junction of two armies or detachments; the junction of paths.
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The place or point of union, meeting, or junction; specifically, the place where two or more lines of railway meet or cross.
Junction plate (Boilers), a covering or break-join plate riveted to and uniting the edges of sheets which make a butt joint.
Junction rails (Railroads), the switch, or movable, rails, connecting one line of track with another.
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 to railroad tracks.
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 English) The place where a distributary departs from the main stream. 5 (context radio television English) A point in time between two unrelated consecutive broadcasts. 6 (context computing Microsoft Windows English) A kind of symbolic link to a directory.
WordNet
n. the place where two or more things come together
the state of being joined together [syn: conjunction, conjugation, colligation]
the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made [syn: articulation, join, joint, juncture]
something that joins or connects [syn: conjunction]
an act of joining or adjoining things [syn: adjunction]
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 75
Land area (2000): 0.887141 sq. miles (2.297684 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.887141 sq. miles (2.297684 sq. km)
FIPS code: 38778
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 37.722726 N, 88.237973 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 62954
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Housing Units (2000): 1222
Land area (2000): 2.286429 sq. miles (5.921824 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.006923 sq. miles (0.017931 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.293352 sq. miles (5.939755 sq. km)
FIPS code: 38248
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 30.489772 N, 99.771335 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 76849
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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: Utah (UT), FIPS 49
Location: 38.236403 N, 112.222961 W
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Wikipedia
Junction may refer to:
A junction, in the context of rail transport, is a place at which two or more rail routes converge or diverge. This implies a physical connection between the tracks of the two routes (assuming they are of the same gauge), provided by points (US: switches) and signalling.
is a puzzle video game developed by Micronet and published by Konami in 1990 that saw a western release. Using a variety of sliding puzzles, the player rolls a ball (possibly containing a small armadillo character as implied by the game's introduction) along tracks set on the tiles. Players must align the tracks together and have the ball roll over bridged tracks that have been set on the border of the puzzle in order to complete each level. Junction has a total of 50 levels which the player can select at random, but a certain number of points have to be reached by level 50 in order for the player to beat the game and see the ending.
Junction is similar in design to Konami's Loco-Motion arcade game from 1982, but with isometric graphics.
The Sega Game Gear version had a reference to Curse, a previous Micronet game, in its opening.
A canal junction is a place at which two or more canal routes converge or diverge. This implies a physical connection between the beds of the two canals (commonly in the form of a T junction) as opposed to them crossing on different levels e.g. via an aqueduct.
Where the canals were originally owned by different companies there is often a stop lock at the junction.
In some cases, the creation of a canal junction caused a town to grow up alongside.
Junction is a San Francisco-based online investment platform that allows accredited investors to purchase limited partnership interests in funds that invest in major motion pictures.
Junction differs from donation-based crowdfunding for film in that members receive investments indirectly in the film projects rather than gifts, and the projects listed on Junction are already fully financed. Investors become limited partners in a fund that has economic exposure to the project through an investment agreement with one of the film’s financiers.
Junction’s business is facilitated by the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, the passage of which in 2012 created new avenues for companies to solicit investments.
Financiers including Worldview Entertainment, Endgame Entertainment, PalmStar Media, QED International and Silver Reel are reported to be working with Junction as of March 2014.
Junction was founded in 2012 by Adam Kaufman, a former Goldman Sachs banker, and Brian Goldsmith, a former CBS News producer. As of March 2014, their team includes a former Google engineer, a onetime technology employee at Goldman, and a former lawyer at Cravath, Swaine & Moore. Their advisors include Steve Wynn, Jason Blum and Logan Green.
On October 2014, the European equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs announced the acquisition of Junction.
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 score drugs, four strung out meth-addicts - Donald (Bledsoe), Kari (Moore), David (Pelphrey) and Spot (Doran) – break into an upscale suburban home looking for a flat screen television that was requested by their dealer (Ruivivar). During the burglary, Spot and Donald discover a dark secret about the homeowners, which pits the four meth-addicts against each other and the police (Zayas and O’Keefe).
The film was released in the United States on July 14, 2012.
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.