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Definitions for Juncture
[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.
[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 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.
[8] a point in time, esp a critical one (often in the phrase at this juncture )
[9] linguistics a pause in speech or a feature of pronunciation that introduces, accompanies, or replaces a pause the set of phonological features signalling a division between words, such as those that distinguish a name from an aim
[10] a less common word for junction
Words related to Juncture
crossroad, point, strait, pass, plight, crisis, exigency, state, status, emergency, circumstance, choice, crux, moment, occasion, condition, posture, predicament, instant, pinch
Words nearby Juncture
junction nevus, junction transistor, junctional epithelium, junctura, junctural, juncture, jundiaí, june, june bug, june grass, juneau
Origin of Juncture
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin junctūra, equivalent to junct(us ) (see junction) + -ūra -ure
Words that may be confused with Juncture
junction, juncture, (see, synonym, study, at, junction)
Synonyms for Juncture
crossroad, choice, circumstance, condition, contingency, crisis, crux, emergency, exigency, instant, moment, occasion, pass, pinch, plight, point, position, posture, predicament, quandary, state, status, strait, time, meeting point, zero hour