junction

Definitions

• The act of joining, or the state of being joined.
• A place where two things meet, especially where two roads meet.
• The boundary between two physically different materials, especially between conductors, semiconductors, or metals.
• (nautical) The place where a distributary departs from the main stream.
• (rail transport) A place where two or more railways or railroads meet.
• (radio) A point in time between two unrelated consecutive broadcasts.
• (computing) A kind of symbolic link to a directory.
• (programming) In the Raku programming language, a construct representing a composite of several values connected by an operator.