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junc⋅ture

  [juhngk-cher]
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–noun
1. a point of time, esp. 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.
3. the line or point at which two bodies are joined; joint or articulation; seam.
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, esp. 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.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME < L junctūra, equiv. to junct(us) (see junction ) + -ūra -ure

Synonyms:
1, 3. See junction.
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junc·ture   (jŭngk'chər)   
n.  

  1. The act of joining or the condition of being joined.

  2. A place where two things are joined; a junction or joint.

  3. A point in time, especially a critical point. See Synonyms at crisis.

  4. The transition or mode of transition from one sound to another in speech.


[Middle English, from Latin iūnctūra, from iūnctus, past participle of iungere, to join; see yeug- in Indo-European roots.]
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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).

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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