junction

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But during floods the junction is the scene of a wild turmoil of waters.

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  1. noun The act or process of joining or the condition of being joined.
  2. noun A place where two things join or meet, especially a place where two roads or railway routes come together and one terminates.
  3. noun A transition layer or boundary between two different materials or between physically different regions in a single material, especially:

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  • But during floods the junction is the scene of a wild turmoil of waters. —  The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir
  • Abbeville is an important railway junction, and as I looked down from some high ground commanding a view of all the lines of railway, it was as though every set of metals had its procession of trains as far as the eye could reach. —  1914
  • On considering the circles of inosculation formed around the innominate bone between the branches derived from the iliac arteries near the sacro-iliac junction, and those emanating from the common femoral, above and below Poupart's ligament, it will at once appear that, in respect to the lower limb, the collateral circulation will occur more freely if the ligature be applied to the main vessel (external iliac) than if to the common femoral below its branches XXII.--The superficial femoral artery. —  Surgical Anatomy
  • A little further on was the railway junction, and beyond that, more houses stretching to Hathersedge, where the stocking factories were busy. —  The Lost Girl
  • We go by the Great Central as far as the junction, together. —  The Lost Girl
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Latin iūnctiō, iūnctiōn-, from iūnctus, past participle of iungere, to join; see yeug- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French jonction = Spanish junccion = Portuguese juncção, from Latin junctio(n-), a joining, from jungere, past participle junctus, join: see join.
 

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/ˈdʒəŋkʃən/
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