junction

The act of joining, or the state of being joined.

Their collaboration formed a fruitful junction of ideas.

A place where two things meet, especially where two roads meet.

Turn left at the next road junction.

A place where two or more railways or railroads meet.

The two rail lines meet at a major junction.

In the mid-1930s, when Stalin was looking to make a statement with his new Metro, he consulted Underground engineers, who offered advice to the Russian Minister in charge of the Metro project, Nikita Khrushchev. He was severely told: 'Don't have a Circle Line - too many flat junctions.' Moscow did build a circle line, but with flying junctions, by which one track goes over another.

The boundary between two physically different materials, especially between conductors, semiconductors, or metals.

The place where a distributary departs from the main stream.

To form a junction.

critical junction

symbolic junction

A village in Gallatin County, Illinois, United States.

A city, the county seat of Kimble County, Texas, United States.

A small town, the county seat of Piute County, Utah, United States.

An unincorporated community in Clark County, Wisconsin, United States.