junctures
Meaning of junctures
plural noun
- 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
- 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 ).
late Middle English (in the sense ‘act of joining’): from Latin junctura, ‘joint’, from jungere ‘to join’.
Information about junctures
- It is a name.
- The singular form of junctures is: juncture.
- Languages in which junctures is used:
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Hyphenation of junctures
junc-tures
- It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
- junctures is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
junctures synonyms
Meaning a particular moment in time or stage in a process:
Meaning the favourable or appropriate time to do something:
Meaning an exact point in time:
Meaning a point, period, or step in a process or development:
Meaning a length or portion of time:
Meaning a distinct period or stage in a series of events or a process of change or development:
Meaning a point at which parts of an artificial structure are joined:
Meaning a point where two or more things are joined:
Meaning a point or line common to lines or surfaces that intersect:
Meaning a place or line where two or more things are connected or fastened together:
Meaning a relationship between two things or situations, especially where one affects the other:
Meaning a relationship between people or groups based on shared feelings, interests, or experiences:
Meaning a welded joint:
Meaning a line where two pieces of fabric are sewn together in a garment or other article:
Meaning a device for connecting parts of machinery:
Meaning a relationship in which a person or thing is linked or associated with something else:
Meaning the action of joining together or the fact of being joined together, especially in a political context:
Meaning a device fitted to something, in particular a weak or injured part of the body, to give support:
Meaning each of a pair of marks ( ) [ ] { } 〈 〉 used to enclose words or figures so as to separate them from the context:
Meaning a movable joint or mechanism on which a door, gate, or lid swings as it opens and closes or which connects linked objects:
Meaning the joint between two bones:
Meaning a stitch or row of stitches holding together the edges of a wound or surgical incision:
Meaning a junction between two nerve cells, consisting of a minute gap across which impulses pass by diffusion of a neurotransmitter:
Meaning the junction of two rivers, especially rivers of approximately equal width:
Meaning the process or state of converging:
Meaning an assembly of people for a particular purpose, especially for formal discussion:
Meaning another term for confluence:
Meaning a place where two streams meet:
Words that rhyme with junctures
ures, Aures, Jaures, aures, roquelaures, garbures, cures, discures, epicures, faithcures, manicures, obscures, overcures, pedicures, precures, procures, recures, resecures, secures, sinecures, bordures, coendures, dures, endures, engendures, microprocedures, obdures, ordures, outdures, perdures, procedures, reioyndures, rejoindures, rondures, roundures, supersedures, verdures, esthesioneures, exterieures, somatopleures, coiffures, furfures, configures, disfigures, figures, ligures, outfigures, prefigures, reconfigures, refigures
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