different between attachment vs junction

English

Etymology

From French attachement, equivalent to attach +? -ment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??tæt?m?nt/

Noun

attachment (countable and uncountable, plural attachments)

1. The act or process of (physically or figuratively) attaching.
2. A strong bonding with or fondness for someone or something.

   I have such an attachment towards my fiancé!

3. A dependence, especially a strong one.
4. A device attached to a piece of equipment or a tool.
5. The means by which something is physically attached.
6. (computing) A file sent along with an email.
7. (law) Taking a person's property to satisfy a court-ordered debt.

   attachment of earnings

8. (meteorology) The act or process by which any (downward) leader connects to any available (upward) streamer in a lightning flash.
   • 2009, Jakke Mäkelä, Eero Karvinen, Niko Porjo, Antti Mäkelä and Tapio Tuomi, Attachment of Natural Lightning Flashes to Trees: Preliminary Statistical Characteristics, published in the Journal of Lightning Research, volume 1

Derived terms

• attachment disorder

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English attachment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??t?t?m?nt/, /??t?t?m?nt/
• Hyphenation: at?tach?ment

Noun

attachment m or n (plural attachments)

1. attachment (to an email)

   Synonym: bijlage

2. (psychology) attachment, personal bonding

English

Etymology

From Latin i?ncti? (“union, joining, uniting”), from iung? (“join, attach together”). Equivalent to join +? -tion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d???k??n/
• Rhymes: -??k??n

Noun

junction (plural junctions)

1. The act of joining, or the state of being joined.
2. A place where two things meet, especially where two roads meet.
3. The boundary between two physically different materials, especially between conductors, semiconductors, or metals.
4. (nautical) The place where a distributary departs from the main stream.
5. (rail transport) A place where two or more railways or railroads meet.
6. (radio, television) A point in time between two unrelated consecutive broadcasts.
   • 2007, Gary Hudson, Sarah Rowlands, The Broadcast Journalism Handbook (page 336)

     Even rolling news has junctions to meet - headlines on the hour or half-hour, or links to live events, for example.
7. (computing, Microsoft Windows) A kind of symbolic link to a directory.
8. (programming) In the Raku programming language, a construct representing a composite of several values connected by an operator.

Synonyms

• (place where two things meet): intersection

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Bengali: ???? (jô??ôn)
• ? Japanese: ???????

Translations

See also

• crossroad
• intersection

Verb

junction (third-person singular simple present junctions, present participle junctioning, simple past and past participle junctioned)

1. (of roads or tracks) To form a junction.