| 单词 | junction |
| 释义 | junction (once / 718 pages) n The noun junction refers to a meeting or a joining of some kind. If you live at the junction of Main and State streets, then your house is where those two streets meet. Junction often refers to the point where streets or railway lines come together, but it can describe other things that are joined, especially things that are in motion or transmit other things. For example, your body has nerve junctions — the places where your nerves come together. You may go swimming at the junction of two rivers. Junction can also refer to something that connects things, like a junction you use to connect electrical cords. WORD FAMILYjunction: junctions USAGE EXAMPLESThe slip roads east and west bound at junction 24 of the M62 remain closed. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) A stretch of the motorway between Junction 21, near Weston-super-Mare, and J18A, near Bristol, was shut after freezing temperatures were recorded overnight. BBC(Dec 27, 2016) It will use the money for a new electrical duct bank, cabling, and above-ground, high-voltage cable junction boxes to maximize energy efficiency. Washington Times(Dec 14, 2016) 1n an act of joining or adjoining things Syn|Hyper adjunction connection, connexion, joining the act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication) 2n the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made Syn|Hypo|Hyper articulation, join, joint, juncture esophagogastric junction, oesophagogastric junction the junction between the esophagus and the stomach epithelium connection, connexion, link a connecting shape 3n the place where two or more things come together Hypo|Hyper interchange a junction of highways on different levels that permits traffic to move from one to another without crossing traffic streams carrefour, crossing, crossroad, crossway, intersectiona junction where one street or road crosses another railway junctiona junction where two or more railway lines meet or cross T-junctiona junction where two roads or pipes etc. meet to form a T circle, rotary, roundabout, traffic circlea road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island cloverleafan interchange that does not require left-hand turns corner, street corner, turning pointthe intersection of two streets grade crossing, level crossingintersection of a railway and a road on the same level; barriers close road when trains pass spaghetti junctiona complicated highway interchange with multiple overpasses place, spot, topographic point a point located with respect to surface features of some region 4n the state of being joined together Syn|Hypo|Hyper colligation, conjugation, conjunction anastomosis, inosculation a natural or surgical joining of parts or branches of tubular structures so as to make or become continuous synapsethe junction between two neurons (axon-to-dendrite) or between a neuron and a muscle myoneural junction, neuromuscular junctionthe junction between a nerve fiber and the muscle it supplies unification, union the state of being joined or united or linked 5n something that joins or connects Syn|Hypo|Hyper conjunction contact, tangency (electronics) a junction where things (as two electrical conductors) touch or are in physical contact jointjunction by which parts or objects are joined together barrier strip, junction barriera junction unit for connecting 2 cables without the need for plugs splice, splicinga junction where two things (as paper or film or magnetic tape) have been joined together thermojunctiona junction between two dissimilar metals across which a voltage appears ball-and-socket jointa joint that can rotate within a socket butt, butt jointa joint made by fastening ends together without overlapping breaker point, distributor point, pointa contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs electrical contactcontact that allows current to pass from one conductor to another flexible joint, hingea joint that holds two parts together so that one can swing relative to the other hinge joint, knuckle jointa joint allowing movement in one plane only lap joint, splicejoint made by overlapping two ends and joining them together miter, miter joint, mitre, mitre jointjoint that forms a corner; usually both sides are bevelled at a 45-degree angle to form a 90-degree corner mortise joint, mortise-and-tenon jointa joint made by inserting tenon on one piece into mortise holes in the other p-n junctionthe junction between a p-type semiconductor and an n-type semiconductor rabbet jointa joint formed by fitting together two rabbeted boards scarf, scarf jointa joint made by notching the ends of two pieces of timber or metal so that they will lock together end-to-end seamjoint consisting of a line formed by joining two pieces short, short circuitaccidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference sound bowcontact (the part of a bell) against which the clapper strikes pole, terminala contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves toggle jointa joint made by two arms attached by a pivot; used to apply pressure at the two ends by straightening the joint treadthe part (as of a wheel or shoe) that makes contact with the ground welda metal joint formed by softening with heat and fusing or hammering together contact arm, wiper, wiper armcontact consisting of a conducting arm that rotates over a series of fixed contacts and comes to rest on an outlet connecter, connection, connective, connector, connexion an instrumentality that connects |
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