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noun

Junction n.

The act of joining, or the state of being joined; union; combination; coalition; as, the junction of two armies or detachments; the junction of paths.

The place or point of union, meeting, or junction; specifically, the place where two or more lines of railway meet or cross.

Junction plate (Boilers), a covering or break-join plate riveted to and uniting the edges of sheets which make a butt joint.

Junction rails (Railroads), the switch, or movable, rails, connecting one line of track with another.

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Etymology of 'Junction'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Junction" Quotes from Famous Books

... Commander had no more than four thousand men, many of whom were raw recruits, mere boys, whose services had been procured for nine months for fifteen hundred dollars each. Georgia and the Carolinas were entirely reduced and it was only a question of time before the junction of the two armies ...

— The Loyalist - A Story of the American Revolution • James Francis Barrett

... observed since, and leave it as a caution to the readers of this story, that we ought to be cautious of gratifying our inclinations in loose and lewd freedoms, lest we find our resolutions of virtue fail us in the junction when their assistance should ...

— The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders &c. • Daniel Defoe

... with Germans pressing hard on all sides, two columns in retreat fell in together, uncertain which way to go. With confusion developing for want of instructions, a lone, exhausted staff officer who happened along took charge, and standing at the junction in the midst of shell-fire told every doubting unit what to do, with a one-two-three alacrity of decision. His work finished, he and his red cap disappeared, and I never could find anyone who knew who ...

— My Year of the War • Frederick Palmer

... he perceived that the seventh legion, which stood close by him, was also hard prest by the enemy, directed the tribunes of the soldiers to effect a junction of the legions gradually, and make their charge upon the enemy with a double front, which having been done since they brought assistance the one to the other, nor feared lest their rear should be surrounded by the enemy, they began to stand their ground more boldly, ...

— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome • Various

... going back to Chicago on the evening train tonight. Now there's no use having trouble with your folks. They wouldn't understand. You tell them you are going over to one of the neighbors', anything you can think of. That train slows down at the junction, right across the field there—you can always hear it whistle. I'll be aboard the last car and I'll take you to Chicago with me. Then ...

— Little Lost Sister • Virginia Brooks

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