noun🔗ShareA place where things join, a junction."The road split at the junctures of Highways 10 and 35. "placepartChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA critical moment in time.""Graduation and starting a new job are two important junctures in a young person's life." "timesituationeventhistoryChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareThe 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 different junctures in how she said "ice cream" versus "I scream" completely changed the meaning, even though the sounds were the same. "languagephoneticslinguisticssoundcommunicationChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading