Junction vs Adjacency - What's the difference?
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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.
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(computing, Microsoft Windows) A kind of symbolic link to a directory.
(uncountable) The quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch.
(countable) A relationship of being adjacent to something.
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Junction is a related term of adjacency.
As nouns the difference between junction and adjacency
is that junction is the act of joining, or the state of being joined while adjacency is (uncountable) the quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch.junction
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(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 .
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* (place where two things meet) intersectionDerived terms
* depletion junction * junction box * junction canal * junction detector * junction diode * junction gate * junction nevus * junction table * junction transistor * p-n junctionadjacency
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