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juncture

[juhngk-cher]

Origin

noun

a point of time, especially one made critical or important by a concurrence of circumstances: At this juncture, we must decide whether to stay or to walk out.

a serious state of affairs; crisis: The matter has reached a juncture and a decision must be made.

the line or point at which two bodies are joined; joint or articulation; seam.

the act of joining.

the state of being joined.

EXPAND

something by which two things are joined.

Phonetics.

a pause or other phonological feature or modification of a feature, as the lengthening of a preceding phoneme or the strengthening of a following one, marking a transition or break between sounds, especially marking the phonological boundary of a word, clause, or sentence: it is present in such words as night-rate and re-seed and absent in such words as nitrate and recede. Compare close juncture, open juncture, terminal juncture.

the point in a word or group of words at which such a pause or other junctural marker occurs.

COLLAPSE

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin junctūra, equivalent to junct(us) (see junction) + -ūra -ure

Can be confused: junction, juncture (see synonym note at junction).

Synonyms
1, 3. See junction.

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World English Dictionary

juncture (ˈdʒʌŋktʃə)

—n
1.	a point in time, esp a critical one (often in the phrase at this juncture)
2.	linguistics
	a. a pause in speech or a feature of pronunciation that introduces, accompanies, or replaces a pause
	b. the set of phonological features signalling a division between words, such as those that distinguish a name from an aim
3.	a less common word for junction

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Word Origin & History

juncture

1382, "place where two things are joined," from L. junctura "a joining, uniting, a joint," from junctus, pp. of jungere "to join" (see jugular). Sense of "point in time" first recorded 1656, probably from astrology.

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Medical Dictionary

juncture junc·ture (jŭngk'chər)
n.
The point, line, or surface of union of two parts.

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Idioms & Phrases

juncture

see at this point (juncture).