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Junction vs Concord - What's the difference?

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Junction is a related term of concord.


As a noun junction

is the act of joining, or the state of being joined.

As a proper noun concord is

the state capital of new hampshire.

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

    concord

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) concorde'', Latin ''concordia'', from . See heart, and compare accord

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A state of agreement; harmony; union.
  • * Love quarrels oft in pleasing concord end. -
  • (obsolete) Agreement by stipulation; compact; covenant; treaty or league
  • * The concord made between Henry and Roderick. -
  • (grammar) Agreement of words with one another, in gender, number, person, or case.
  • (legal, obsolete) An agreement between the parties to a fine of land in reference to the manner in which it should pass, being an acknowledgment that the land in question belonged to the complainant. See fine.
  • (Burrill)
  • (probably influenced by chord, music) An agreeable combination of tones simultaneously heard; a consonant chord; consonance; harmony.
  • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A variety of American grape, with large dark blue (almost black) grapes in compact clusters.
  • Etymology 3

    From (etyl)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To agree; to act together
  • (Edward Hyde Clarendon)