Other forms: junctions
On the railway, a junction is where two lines meet or divide. Clapham Junction, a junction signal, the junction is closed.
Many British stations are named Junction for exactly this reason, and Clapham Junction is the busiest railway interchange in Europe by number of trains. On roads, a junction is where two roads meet — take the next junction, junction nine of the motorway. Note that British motorway junctions are numbered and are how everybody navigates; and that in electronics a junction is where two materials meet in a component.
1nounrailWhere two railway lines meet or divide.
“The train stopped at the junction, where the line to the coast splits off.”
2nounroadsWhere two roads meet.
“Leave at junction four and follow the signs for about a mile.”
junction is a meeting point.
Latin iunctio comes from iungere, to join — the same root as join, joint, conjunction and yoga, which means yoking. A junction is simply a joining given a Latin name.
Proto-Indo-European
*yewg-
Latin
iūnctiō — union, joining, uniting
English, today
junction
Built from
From Latin iūnctiō (“union, joining, uniting”), from iungō (“join, attach together”). Equivalent to join + tion.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA