Noun

(uncountable) Oneness; the state or fact of being one undivided entity.

* 1846 ,

If any literary work is too long to be read at one sitting, we must be content to dispense with the immensely important effect derivable from unity of impression - for, if two sittings be required, the affairs of the world interfere, and everything like totality is at once destroyed.

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A single undivided thing, seen as complete in itself.

* 1999 , Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams , Oxford 2008, p. 137:

If a single day has brought us two or more experiences suitable to initiate a dream, the dream will unite references to them both into a single whole; it obeys a compulsion to form a unity out of them .

(drama) Any of the three classical rules of drama (unity of action, unity of place, and unity of time).`

(mathematics) Any element of a set or field that behaves under a given operation as the number 1 behaves under multiplication.

(legal) The peculiar characteristics of an estate held by several in joint tenancy.

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.