English Dictionary

junction

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈd͡ʒʌŋkʃən/

名詞

The act of joining, or the state of being joined. / A place where two things meet, especially where two roads meet.

日本語の意味

合流点や交差点など、複数のものが接合・合流する場所 / 結合、連結状態、その行為や状態

The junction of the two rivers created a wide, marshy delta.

二つの川の合流が広い湿地帯を作り出した。

意味（1）

The act of joining, or the state of being joined.

意味（2）

A place where two things meet, especially where two roads meet.

意味（3）

The boundary between two physically different materials, especially between conductors, semiconductors, or metals.

意味（4）

(nautical) The place where a distributary departs from the main stream.

意味（5）

(rail transport) A place where two or more railways or railroads meet.

In the mid-1930s, when Stalin was looking to make a statement with his new Metro, he consulted Underground engineers, who offered advice to the Russian Minister in charge of the Metro project, Nikita Khrushchev. He was severely told: 'Don't have a Circle Line - too many flat junctions.' Moscow did build a circle line, but with flying junctions, by which one track goes over another.

意味（6）

(radio, television) A point in time between two unrelated consecutive broadcasts.

Even rolling news has junctions to meet - headlines on the hour or half-hour, or links to live events, for example.

意味（7）

(computing, Microsoft Windows) A kind of symbolic link to a directory.

意味（8）

(programming) In the Raku programming language, a construct representing a composite of several values connected by an operator.

junctions （ plural ）