juncture
English
editEtymology
editInherited from Middle English juncture, from Latin iūnctūra. Doublet of jointure.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editjuncture (plural junctures)
- A place where things join, a junction.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:junction
- A critical moment in time.
- We're at a crucial juncture in our relationship.
- 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC:
- What a mercy you are shod with velvet, Jane! a clodhopping messenger would never do at this juncture.
- 1962 October, G. Freeman Allen, “The New Look in Scotland's Northern Division—II”, in Modern Railways, page 170:
- The object is to keep the yard operators apprised of main-line movements, so that they do not plan to occupy the main lines with activity into or out of the yard at an inopportune juncture.
- (linguistics) The manner of moving (transition) or mode of relationship between two consecutive sounds; a suprasegmental phonemic cue, by which a listener can distinguish between two otherwise identical sequences of sounds that have different meanings.
Derived terms
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editTranslations
editjunction
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critical moment in time
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Latin
editParticiple
editjūnctūre
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