junction
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
junction/ˈʤʌŋkʃn/
▶noun
- 1 a point where two or more things, especially roads or railway lines, meet or are joined.
- 2 Electronics a region of transition in a semiconductor between a part where conduction is mainly by electrons and a part where it is mainly by holes.
- 3 the action of joining or being joined.
– origin C18: from L. junctio(n-), from jungere ‘to join’.
'junction' also found in these Oxford entries:
box junction
- caecum
- chowk
- cloverleaf
- commissure
- confluence
- cove
- fingerpost
- flashing
- gasket
- interchange
- Josephson junction
- junction box
- limbus
- mitre
- nick
- Peltier effect
- photovoltaic
- photovoltaics
- p–n junction
- point
- point duty
- roundabout
- suture
- tailback
- T-junction
- turn
- turn-off
- turnout
