Samantha Shannon

In 2011, I did an internship in Seven Dials, a junction in London where seven roads come together. I'd given up on writing after multiple rejections for my first novel, and I was starting to consider a career in publishing instead, but Seven Dials gave me such a strong idea for a setting that I couldn't resist picking up my pen again.

British Writer

Ehud Olmert

The Palestinians are facing a historic junction at which they will have to decide whether they want to remain stuck in a corner of extreme fundamentalism, which will cut them off from the entire world, or whether they are ready to take the necessary steps. My role is to assist in building this process.

Israeli Politician

Cornelia Parker

I was involved in a serious accident driving in torrential rain at midnight in Cardiff. I was only doing five miles an hour, but because I couldn't see very well, I crossed a junction and collided with another car that was driving very fast. I ended up in hospital for six weeks with a shattered pelvis.

English Artist

Isamu Akasaki

Very many researchers, including the front runners in gallium nitride, abandoned the development of gallium nitride-based devices. I have devoted myself to the study of crystal growth, aiming at the development of the p-n junction of gallium nitride.

Japanese Scientist

Glen Hansard

If you stand still in any city long enough, you see everyone pass you by. So you're in Chicago. If you stand on the corner of Belmont and Clark, and you do that for three years, you'll pretty much have seen everybody in Chicago pass that junction.

Irish Musician

Bruce Catton

The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you.

American Historian

David Hepworth

Back in the 1980s, state-of-the-nation fictions were all set in Manhattan. Now, they're all in Trump country. Early in 'S-Town,' we're introduced to an actual maze, every branch of which leads to a further junction. This may also be a metaphor.

British Journalist

Steven Gundry

Lectins bind to receptors on the surface of each cell lining the gut, breaking down the tight junctions that normally make an impenetrable barrier between the intestinal contents including bacteria and ourselves.

American Author

David K. Shipler

Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.

Timothy Morton

Everything is a railway junction where past and future are sliding over one another, not touching.

English Philosopher

Often used when discussing traffic, navigation, or driving directions in daily life.

Traffic Context

Junctions can be T-shaped or Y-shaped, not just crossroads; consider all connecting points.

Not Always Cross

Use 'junction' to describe spatial relationships between streets, enhancing map understanding.

Spatial Orientation

When 'junction' indicates a connection, it often signifies a point of significance or change.

Connection Importance

Can be used metaphorically to describe the coming together of abstract entities like ideas.

Metaphorical Usage

In engineering or electronics, 'junction' is a technical term and part of specific vocabulary.

Technical Term

A 'junction' in electronics often refers to places where current can pass through different parts.

Current Flow

In biology or medicine, 'junction' involves connections within living organisms, like nerves.

Biological Context

Learning about nerve junctions can help understand how the body communicates internally.

Understanding Functions

 what wait a minute what let's defeat that's the hot in right the block melted but why it didn't help that little Junction thing a little box melted wall the junction box which connects the power coming out of the generator to the panel started to melt because of a loose connection if I hadn't smelled it spotted it when I

Fire Aboard the Hot Tuna...

 universities the universe lowered the sky joins them the clouds bursting in among them with a bit brought up with a broad promise of rain the key to the crowd lay asleep in a sofas cassock pocket and no one wanted to be opened no not to be shut when they reach the airport Junction the police thought it

The reality constructed...

 or that's how people think about it. There is also a rare thing called temporal lobe epilepsy, and sometimes, if one has this, one may feel oneself transported back to a time and place in the past. You're at a particular road junction. You smell chestnuts roasting.

What hallucination...

 generally based on the local time of its headquarters, and the railroad's train schedules were published using its own time. Some major railroad junctions served by several different railroads had a separate clock for each railroad, each showing a different time.

The history of keeping...

 Here's the a silicon solar cell uses two different layers of silicon. An n-type silicon has extra electrons, and p-type silicon has extra spaces for electrons, called holes. Where the two types of silicon meet, electrons can wander across the p/n junction,

How do solar panels...

 a special region called a P-N junction forms between the emitter and base. It only conducts electricity when a voltage exceeding a certain threshold is applied. Otherwise, it remains switched off. In this way, small variations in the input voltage

How transistors work -...

 lies at the junction of three continental plates which spread further each year possibly the oldest living lava lake and one of the lowest points on the planet geologists here can study the processes that form the world

"The Hellhole of...

 the anti-reflux barrier of the gastroesophageal junction that normally protects against heartburn. Numerous medications, including those for asthma, high blood pressure, birth control, and depression

What causes heartburn? -...

 the north and that their junction that is food in abundance these black-browed albatross are duck diving for krill that has been driven up to the surface like all Albatross black brows are

World's Largest...

 You know this is the last junction before the exit, but your trail markings have been erased, and no one remembers the way. If nine of you split up, there should be just enough time

Junction

Traffic Context

Not Always Cross

Spatial Orientation

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