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JUNCTION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An act of joining or adjoining things
Synonyms:
adjunction; junction
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
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)
Sense 2
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 3
Meaning:
Something that joins or connects
Synonyms:
conjunction; junction
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
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 4
Meaning:
The shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made
Synonyms:
articulation; join; joint; junction; juncture
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
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 5
Meaning:
The state of being joined together
Synonyms:
colligation; conjugation; conjunction; junction
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
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)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb junction
Context examples:
The trains which traverse the lines of rail beside which the body was found are those which run from west to east, some being purely Metropolitan, and some from Willesden and outlying junctions.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A usually congenital abnormality characterized by the partial obstruction of the junction between the renal pelvis and ureter.
(Pelviureteric Junction Obstruction, NCI Thesaurus)
This protein is involved in receptor signaling, tyrosine phosphorylation and both the development and maintenance of the postsynaptic side of the neuromuscular junction.
(Muscle, Skeletal Receptor Tyrosine-Protein Kinase, NCI Thesaurus)
This protein plays a role at cell-cell junctions.
(Metalloreductase STEAP1, NCI Thesaurus)
This allele, which encodes angiomotin protein, is involved in the regulation of tight junction formation.
(AMOT wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
These sites are located in genes at intron to exon junctions at the 3' end of the intron.
(Acceptor Splice Site SNP, NCI Thesaurus)
The astrocytic endfeet release molecules that regulate the tight junctions between the endothelial cells.
(Brain tumor invasion along blood vessels may lead to new cancer treatments, NIH)
The finding suggests that the inferior frontal junction may direct the flow of visual processing during object-based attention.
(How the brain pays attention to faces and places, NIH)
A junction between two nanowires forms a variable resistive element (i.e., a synaptic element) that behaves like a neuronal synapse.
(Neuromorphic Metallic Nanowire Network Shows Human Brain-Like Functions, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The Arp2/3 complex is localized at the Y branch junction and induces actin polymerization.
(Actin Branching Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
