junction

  • noun 1 a point where two or more things meet or are joined. 2 a place where two or more roads or railway lines meet. 3 Electronics a region of transition in a semiconductor between a part where conduction is mainly by electrons and a part where it is mainly by holes. 4 the action of joining or state of being joined.

  — ORIGIN Latin, from jungere ‘to join’.

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