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  • noun Plural form of junction.

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Examples

  • Great lateral torrents descend to these rivers, and on alluvial ridges formed at the junctions are the villages with their pleasant surroundings of barley, lucerne, wheat, with poplar and fruit trees, and their picturesque gonpos crowning spurs of rock above them.

    Among the Tibetans Isabella Lucy 2004

  • Great lateral torrents descend to these rivers, and on alluvial ridges formed at the junctions are the villages with their pleasant surroundings of barley, lucerne, wheat, with poplar and fruit trees, and their picturesque gonpos crowning spurs of rock above them.

    Among the Tibetans 1867

  • They emerged for the first time in Los Angeles in the late seventies and occur when the grids of roads (or spaghetti of roads as they are in towns like London) become jammed at a series of junctions, meaning that cars cannot escape.

    Gridlock Elton, Ben 1991

  • It sucks in huge amounts of data as you travel, analyzing your planned route in terms of traffic, gradients, curves, speed limits and even probable speed limiting features such as junctions, crossings, schools, speed bumps, roundabouts and traffic lights.

    gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine 2009

  • Windows "junctions" or directory reparse points, while some (such as the Winbolic site) may call them "hard links" or even hard-link-like, are not hard links, because: you can create a Windows symlink to a non-existent folder; you can break a symlink by renaming a symlink's target folder; and you can "fix" a symlink by creating a folder having the name targeted by a symlink.

    Netvouz - new bookmarks 2008

  • Some of the glial cells communicate with one another electrically through gap junctions which is a special type of connection that can let the ions flow between cells, although they have no axons and do not generate or conduct nerve impulses. (

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • Some of the glial cells communicate with one another electrically through gap junctions which is a special type of connection that can let the ions flow between cells, although they have no axons and do not generate or conduct nerve impulses. (

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Ashcraft 2010

  • They will need a driver to handle busy city streets or negotiate complex junctions, but once on the highway they will be able to steer, accelerate and avoid collisions unaided.

    Look, No Hands: Cars That Drive Better Than You | Impact Lab 2010

  • He then made the startling discovery that far from contaminating the wafer, it passivated the crystal's surface and protected the transistor junctions from outside contaminants.

    The Planar Process 2010

  • Part of the A12 in Essex was closed after a woman reported a man holding a concrete block on a bridge on the north carriageway between junctions 14 and 15.

    Fresh concrete block report leads to partial closure of A12 2011

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