JUNCTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does junction mean? 

• JUNCTION (noun)
  The noun JUNCTION has 5 senses:

1. the place where two or more things come together

2. the state of being joined together

3. the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made

4. something that joins or connects

5. an act of joining or adjoining things

  Familiarity information: JUNCTION used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JUNCTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The place where two or more things come together

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("junction" is a kind of...):

place; spot; topographic point (a point located with respect to surface features of some region)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "junction"):

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; intersection (a junction where one street or road crosses another)

railway junction (a junction where two or more railway lines meet or cross)

T-junction (a junction where two roads or pipes etc. meet to form a T)

circle; rotary; roundabout; traffic circle (a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The state of being joined together

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

colligation; conjugation; conjunction; junction

Hypernyms ("junction" is a kind of...):

unification; union (the state of being joined or united or linked)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "junction"):

anastomosis; inosculation (a natural or surgical joining of parts or branches of tubular structures so as to make or become continuous)

synapse (the junction between two neurons (axon-to-dendrite) or between a neuron and a muscle)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Synonyms:

articulation; join; joint; junction; juncture

Hypernyms ("junction" is a kind of...):

connection; connexion; link (a connecting shape)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "junction"):

esophagogastric junction; oesophagogastric junction (the junction between the esophagus and the stomach epithelium)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Something that joins or connects

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

conjunction; junction

Hypernyms ("junction" is a kind of...):

connecter; connection; connective; connector; connexion (an instrumentality that connects)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "junction"):

contact; tangency ((electronics) a junction where things (as two electrical conductors) touch or are in physical contact)

joint (junction by which parts or objects are joined together)

barrier strip; junction barrier (a junction unit for connecting 2 cables without the need for plugs)

splice; splicing (a junction where two things (as paper or film or magnetic tape) have been joined together)

thermojunction (a junction between two dissimilar metals across which a voltage appears)

Sense 5

Meaning:

An act of joining or adjoining things

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

adjunction; junction

Hypernyms ("junction" is a kind of...):

connection; connexion; joining (the act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication))

Derivation:

join (cause to become joined or linked)

 Context examples 

This protein plays a role in the modulation of tight junction formation.

(Angiomotin, NCI Thesaurus)

The part of a desmosome that is on the cytoplasmic side of this junction, consisting of desmoplakin, plakoglobins and plakophilins, which links the cytoplasmic intermediate filaments to the transmembrane cadherin receptor proteins.

(Attachment Plaque, NCI Thesaurus)

Surgical removal of tissues from the lymph nodes located in the cavity beneath the junction of the arm and the thorax (armpit) so that a biopsy can be performed.

(Axillary Lymph Node Biopsy, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene plays a role in tight junction formation.

(AMOT Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

Ambenonium also has direct agonist activity at nicotinic receptors, potentiating the cholinomimetic effect at the neuromuscular junction.

(Ambenonium, NCI Thesaurus)

Squamous cell carcinomas that affect or cross the junction of the stomach and esophagus are classified as carcinomas of the distal esophagus.

(Adenocarcinoma of the Gastroesophageal Junction, NCI Thesaurus)

MLLT4 may bind to actin filaments, linking the actin cytoskeleton to the plasma membrane at cell-to-cell adherens junctions.

(AF-6 Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

Surgical removal of the lymph nodes located in the cavity beneath the junction of the arm and the thorax, or axilla (armpit).

(Axillary lymph node dissection, NCI Thesaurus)

Beta-catenin is an adherens junction protein.

(Beta Catenin, NCI Thesaurus/from OMIM)

It is attached to the roof of the third ventricle near its junction with the mid-brain.

(Pineal Parenchyma, NCI Thesaurus)