different between junction vs unction

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.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin uncti?.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

unction (countable and uncountable, plural unctions)

1. A salve or ointment.
   • 1682, John Dryden, "Mac Flecknoe":

     The king himself the sacred unction made, / As king by office, and as priest by trade.

2. A religious or ceremonial anointing.
3. A balm or something that soothes.
4. A quality in language, address or delivery which expresses sober and fervent emotion.
   • 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch 11:

     Krook almost smacks his lips with the unction of a horrible interest.

5. A smug, exaggerated use of language; smarminess.
6. Divine or sanctifying grace.

Derived terms

• extreme unction

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• count in, countin'