juncture
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tʃər noun
1.
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.
2.
a serious state of affairs; crisis: The matter has reached a juncture and a decision must be made.
4.
the act of joining.
5.
the state of being joined.
6.
something by which two things are joined.
7.
Phonetics.
a.
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.
b.
the point in a word or group of words at which such a pause or other junctural marker occurs.
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juncture (ˈdʒʌŋktʃə) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —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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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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Example sentences
The narrow, winding brick path allows one to wander around two ponds and over an arched stone bridge at the point of juncture.
Users planning to install a local license server will be diverted to that process at the appropriate juncture.
Wireless costs have reached a critical juncture.
And now health reform stands as another crucial juncture.
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