juncture
noun
[ ˈdʒʌŋ(k)tʃə ]
• a particular point in events or time.
• "it is difficult to say at this juncture whether this upturn can be sustained"
• a place where things join.
• "the plane crashed at the juncture of two mountains"
Similar:
joint,
junction,
intersection,
join,
link,
bond,
weld,
seam,
coupling,
connection,
union,
brace,
bracket,
hinge,
commissure,
suture,
synapse,
confluence,
convergence,
meeting,
meeting point,
conflux,
watersmeet,
sangam,
• the set of features in speech that enable a hearer to detect a word or phrase boundary (e.g. distinguishing I scream from ice cream ).
Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘act of joining’): from Latin junctura, ‘joint’, from jungere ‘to join’.
