juncture
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
juncture (plural junctures)
- A place where things join, a junction.
- A critical moment in time.
- We're at a crucial juncture in our relationship.
- 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
- What a mercy you are shod with velvet, Jane! a clodhopping messenger would never do at this juncture.
- (linguistics) The manner of moving (transition) or mode of relationship between two consecutive sounds; a suprasegmental phonemic cue, by which a listener can distinguish between two otherwise identical sequences of sounds that have different meanings.
- French: jonction
- German: Verbindungspunkt, Verbindungsstelle
- Italian: congiuntura
- Portuguese: juntura
- Russian: стык
- Spanish: juntura
- Russian: конъюнкту́ра
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