Conference vs Junction - What's the difference?
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The act of consulting together formally; serious conversation or discussion; interchange of views.
* Shakespeare
(politics) A multilateral diplomatic negotiation.
(science) A formalized event where scientists present their research results in speeches, workshops, posters or by other means.
(business) An event organized by a for-profit or non-profit organization to discuss a pressing issue, such as a new product, market trend or government regulation, with a range of speakers.
(sports) A group of sports teams that play each other on a regular basis.
(obsolete) The act of comparing two or more things together; comparison.
* Hooker
(Methodist Church) A stated meeting of preachers and others, invested with authority to take cognizance of ecclesiastical matters.
A voluntary association of Congregational churches of a district; the district in which such churches are.
(education) To assess (a student) by one-on-one conversation, rather than an examination.
* 2009 , Jennifer Berne, The Writing-Rich High School Classroom
The act of joining, or the state of being joined.
A place where two things meet, especially where two roads meet.
The boundary between two physically different materials, especially between conductors, semiconductors, or metals.
(nautical) The place where a distributary departs from the main stream.
(radio, television) A point in time between two unrelated consecutive broadcasts.
* 2007 , Gary Hudson, ?Sarah Rowlands, The Broadcast Journalism Handbook (page 336)
* 2010 , Peter Stewart, Essential Radio Skills: How to Present a Radio Show
(computing, Microsoft Windows) A kind of symbolic link to a directory.
Conference is a related term of junction.
As a noun junction is
the act of joining, or the state of being joined.conference
English
Noun
(en noun)- Nor with such free and friendly conference / As he hath used of old.
- helps and furtherances which the mutual conference of all men's collections and observations may afford
Derived terms
* conference table * news conference * press conference * conference roomSee also
* discussant, lecturer, parleyer, prelector, speaker. The Writing-Rich High School Classroom: Engaging Students in ...Verb
(conferenc)- The students who were conferenced on paper 1 will get a written response to paper 2, and those who received a written response to paper 1 will be conferenced on paper 2.
junction
English
(wikipedia junction)Noun
(en noun)- Even rolling news has junctions to meet - headlines on the hour or half-hour, or links to live events, for example.
- Try to avoid becoming too predictable or repetitive, particularly at regular junctions .