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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
juncture /ˈdʒʌŋ(k)tʃə/
▶noun
- 1 a particular point in time.
- 2 a place where things join.
- 3 Phonetics the features in speech that enable a hearer to detect a word boundary (e.g. distinguishing I scream from ice cream).
– origin ME: from L. junctura ‘joint’, from jungere ‘to join’.
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