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junction

noun
 
🔊/ˈdʒʌŋkʃn/
🔊/ˈdʒʌŋkʃn/
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  1.  
    (especially British English)
    (North American English usually intersection)
    the place where two or more roads or railway lines meet（公路或铁路的）交叉路口，汇合处，枢纽站
    • It was near the junction of City Road and Old Street.那是在城市路与老街的交叉路口附近。🔊🔊
    • Come off the motorway at junction 6.在 6 号交叉路口驶离高速公路。🔊🔊
    • The most complicated motorway interchange in Britain is known as Spaghetti Junction.英国最复杂的高速公路交汇处是意大利面交界处。
    • In the 19th century the town became an important railway junction.在19世纪，该镇成为重要的铁路枢纽。
    see also box junction, T-junctionTopics Transport by bus and trainc1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • busy
    • dangerous
    • motorway
    • …
    preposition
    • at a/​the junction
    • junction with
    See full entry
  2. a place where two or more cables, rivers or other things meet or are joined（电缆的）主接点；（河流的）汇合处；接合点
    • a telephone junction box电话分线盒
    • the junction between nerves and muscles神经和肌肉之间的交界处
    Topics Transport by car or lorryc1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • busy
    • dangerous
    • motorway
    • …
    preposition
    • at a/​the junction
    • junction with
    See full entry
    3. Word Originearly 18th cent. (originally meaning the action or fact of being joined): from Latin junctio(n-), from jungere ‘to join’.