Junction
['dʒʌŋ(k)ʃ(ə)n] or ['dʒʌŋkʃən]
Definition
(noun.) an act of joining or adjoining things.
(noun.) the place where two or more things come together.
(noun.) something that joins or connects.
(noun.) the state of being joined together.
Checker: Rhonda--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) The place or point of union, meeting, or junction; specifically, the place where two or more lines of railway meet or cross.
Typed by Laverne
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Joining, union, combination, connection, linking, coupling.[2]. Juncture, joint, place of meeting.
Editor: Melinda
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Joining, connection, union, combination, coalition, attachment, fastening,annexation, alliance, confederacy
ANT:Separation, disconnection, disunion, division, segregation, dispersion,loosening, unfastening, uniformity, continuity
Editor: Vince
Definition
n. a joining a union or combination: place or point of union.
Typed by Greta
Examples
- I drew up all the instructions for the contemplated move, and kept them in my pocket until I should hear of the junction of our troops at Jackson. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- We got a gang of men, cut the current off for several junction-boxes, and fixed the leak. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Therefore, I followed him without a word, to a retired nook of the garden, formed by the junction of two walls and screened by some rubbish. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Dalton is at the junction of the railroad from Cleveland with the one from Chattanooga to Atlanta. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It was one of the oldest farms in the neighbourhood, situated in a solitary, sheltered spot, inland at the junction of two hills. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I went with him a short distance from this junction. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Where lay the link of junction, where the little clasp of this monastic necklace? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I then applied for a job on the Grand Trunk Railroad as a railway operator, and was given a place, nights, at Stratford Junction, Canada. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- After leaving my first job at Stratford Junction, I got a position as operator on the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern at Adrian, Michigan, in the division superintendent's office. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Various analogies next pointed to the use of heat, and the thermoelectric cell emerged, embodying the application of flame to the junction of two different metals. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In the accompanying diagram, the ends of the flat silvered glasses _a c_, _b c_, are inclined at an angle of 60 degrees; therefore the circle is completed by the junction of six sectors. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- In the middle of a narrow slip of wood, _d e_, about 12 inches long, the two mirrors, _a b_, are fixed, inclined at the required angle from their line of junction at _c_. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- After the battle he formed a junction at Staunton with Averell and Crook, who had come up from the Kanawha, or Gauley River. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- This is Clapham Junction, if I am not mistaken, and we shall be in Victoria in less than ten minutes. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- There was a leak in one of our junction-boxes, and on account of the cellars extending under the street, the top soil had become insulated. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Typed by Ellie