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Doppelganger vs Junction - What's the difference?

doppelganger | junction |

As nouns the difference between doppelganger and junction

is that doppelganger is doppelganger, while junction is the act of joining, or the state of being joined.

doppelganger

English

Alternative forms

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Noun

(en noun)
  • A ghostly double of a living person, especially one that haunts such a person.
  • An evil twin.
  • A remarkably similar double.
  • (fantasy) A monster that takes the forms of people, usually after killing them.

    • Synonyms

    *alter ego

    junction

    English

    (wikipedia junction)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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)
    • Even rolling news has junctions to meet - headlines on the hour or half-hour, or links to live events, for example.
  • * 2010 , Peter Stewart, Essential Radio Skills: How to Present a Radio Show
    • Try to avoid becoming too predictable or repetitive, particularly at regular junctions .
  • (computing, Microsoft Windows) A kind of symbolic link to a directory.

    • Synonyms

    * (place where two things meet) intersection

    Derived terms

    * depletion junction * junction box * junction canal * junction detector * junction diode * junction gate * junction nevus * junction table * junction transistor * p-n junction