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juncture

noun
/ˈd͡ʒʌŋk.tʃə(ɹ)/UK/ˈd͡ʒʌŋk.t͡ʃɚ/US

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English juncture, from Latin iūnctūra. Doublet of jointure.

  1. derived from iūnctūra
  2. inherited from juncture

Definitions

  1. A place where things join, a junction.

  2. A critical moment in time.

    • We're at a crucial juncture in our relationship.
    • What a mercy you are shod with velvet, Jane! a clodhopping messenger would never do at this juncture.
    • 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.

  3. The manner of moving (transition) or mode of relationship between two consecutive sounds

    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.

The neighborhood

Derived

at this juncture, disjuncture, junctural, junctureless, misjuncture

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at juncture. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at juncture. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at juncture

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA