[ˈdʒʌŋ(k)tʃə], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a particular point in events or time
(e.g: it is difficult to say at this juncture whether this upturn can be sustained)

- a place where things join
(e.g: the plane crashed at the juncture of two mountains)

- the set of features in speech that enable a hearer to detect a word or phrase boundary (e.g. distinguishing I scream from ice cream).


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Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘act of joining’): from Latin junctura, ‘joint’, from jungere ‘to join’