junction

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A place where two or more roads, railways, or routes meet.

   Turn left at the next road junction.

2. 2
   noun

   A point where two things join or come together.

   Their collaboration formed a fruitful junction of ideas.

From Latin iūnctiō (“union, joining, uniting”), from iungō (“join, attach together”). Equivalent to join + -tion.

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