Juncture

Definition: Juncture

Juncture

Noun

1. An event that occurs at a critical time; "at such junctures he always had an impulse to leave"; "it was needed only on special occasions".

2. A crisis situation or point in time when a critical decision must be made; "at that juncture he had no idea what to do"; "he must be made to realize that the company stands at a critical point".

3. The shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "juncture" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Juncture \Junc"ture\, noun. [Latin expression junctura, from jungere to join. See Jointure.]. (references)

Synonyms: Juncture

Circumstance

Occasion, juncture, conjunctive; contingency; (event).

Eventuality

Noun: eventuality, event, occurrence, incident, affair, matter, thing, episode, happening, proceeding, contingency, juncture, experience, fact; matter of fact; naked fact, bare facts, just the facts; phenomenon; advent.

Junction

Joint, joining, juncture, pivot, hinge, articulation,

Occasion

Crisis, turn, juncture, conjuncture; crisis, turning point, given time.

The Present Time

Noun: the present, the present time, the present day, the present moment, the present juncture, the present occasion; the times, the existing time, the time being; today, these days, nowadays, our times, modern times, the twentieth century; nonce, crisis, epoch, day, hour.

Crosswords: Juncture

Books

• Is the die cast? : educational achievements and work destinations of Ontario youth : a six-year follow-up of the critical juncture high school students (reference)

• Juncture recognition in the stock market (reference)

• The Melba Juncture (reference)

• U.S. Trade Policy at a Critical Juncture (Critical Issues 1990, No. 3) (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Economic History

Djibouti

The Republic of Djibouti is a small country (8,250 square miles - about the size of Massachusetts), located at the juncture of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. (references)

Human Rights

Bolivia

The public defender program also provides information about human rights to citizens and seeks to involve public defenders in arrest cases at the earliest possible juncture to ensure that human rights and due process are honored. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "juncture": at this juncture. Additional references.

Albanian

vend bashkimi (joint, junction), rrethana (circumstance, conditions, situation), gjendje punash. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مرحلة (degree, grade, lap, period, phase, point, stage, step), ‏نقطة إتصال (junction), ‏تحول (chop, convert, evolution, inconstancy, metamorphosis, modification, modify, mutate, mutation, reduction, switch, transference, transform, transformation, transfusion, transition, transmutation, turn, turn into, turnover), ‏رباط (band, bind, bond, cord, couple, knot, ligament, ligation, ligature, swathe, truss), ‏ظرف حال (adverb). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съединяване (affiliation, composition, incorporation, interflow, joinder, junction, link up, linkage, make), стечение на обстоятелствата (conjuncture), свързване (association, communication, concatenation, conjunction, connection, connexion, coordination, copulation, coupling, gathering, join, joining, joint, junction, linkage), точка на съединяване, точка на свързване, критическо положение, място на съединяване, място на свързване (joint), линия на съединяване, линия на свързване, положение (aspect, capacity, circumstance, fettle, footing, lay, place, placement, plight, point, position, posture, provision, set, set up, siege, situation, standing, state, train, way). (various references)

Chinese 

關� � (moment), 会合. (various references)

Czech

spojení (combination, communication, concatenation, conjunction, connection, connexion, contact, joint, junction, liaison, link, rapport, relation, union), kritický bod (turning point), kloub (joint). (various references)

Danish

junctura, sammenføjning (junction, soldering), forbindelse (connection). (various references)

Dutch

junctura, verbinding (combination, connection), articulatio. (various references)

Farsi 

پیوستگی (Affinity, Bond, Coalition, Cohesion, Continuity, Incorporation, Joinder, Union, Unity, Zygosis), مفصل (Ample, Copious, Copula, Hinge, Joint, Spacious, Voluminous), الحاق (Access, Addendum, Adhesion, Incorporation, Insertion, Inset, Interpolation, Joinder, Supplement, Union), اتصال (Coitus, Conjuncture, Connexion, Contact, Continuity, Incorporation, Junction, Linkage, Union), ربط (Concern, Contiguity, Correlation, Paraphrase, Rapport, Relevance), درزگاه . (various references)

Finnish

tuona kriitillisenä ajankohtana (at that critical juncture). (various references)

French

joncture, jointure, frontière, conjoncture, articulation (junction). (various references)

German

Verbindungspunkt, kritischer Augenblick. (various references)

Greek 

κρίσιμη στιγμή, ένωση (amalgamation, combination, coupling, fusion, guild, join, junction, union, vinculum), ραφή (religious painting, seam, sewing, stitch, suture), συνάρθρωσις (synarthrosis), συνθήκεσ (conditions), συνδέσμωσις, συμβολή (confluence, contribution, cooperation, junction), περιστάσεισ (conditions), περίσταση (circumstance, occasion). (various references)

Hebrew 

מקום חבור (join), מפ� �" (bearing, change, turn, turning point). (various references)

Hungarian

helyzet (aspect, attitude, bearing, footing, lay, lie, location, occasion, plight, pos, position, predicament, setting, site, situation, stance, state, station, status, things are coming to a crisis), ereszték (cut, joining, joint, mortice, mortise, nesting, tenon), egyesülés helye, krízis (crises, crisis), fordulat (about face, change, corner, facing, idiom, kick in the pants, lap, locution, phrase, Rev, revolution, revolution per minute, rpm, swerve, turn, turning, volt, wimple), egybeesés (coincidence, concurrence, overlap), összetalálkozás (conjunction, conjuncture, encounter, interference, interfering). (various references)

Indonesian

jeda (caesura, respite, rest, take a rest), titik waktu. (various references)

Italian

giuntura (articulation, connecting, coupling, join, joining, joint, knuckle, splice). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

刹那 (instant, moment). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

せつな (instant, moment). (various references)

Korean 

� �합 (BONDING). (various references)

Manx

kiangley (anchoring, anchoring building, article, article to trade, attach, band, bandage, bandaging, belay, bend, bind, bind down, binding, bond, bow knot, bundle, compress, condition, condition terms, connect, constipate, constrain, dress, dressing, envoy, envoy of poem, fasten down, fastening, influence, involvement, link, lock, lock in, locking, make fast, nexus, obligation, pin, pinion, relationship, retain, retention, secure, shackle, stipulation, tether, tie, tie down, tie on, tie up, tying, vinculum). (various references)

Pig Latin

uncturejay.(various references)

Portuguese

juntura (join, joint, jointer, main), junção (accumulation, combination, concourse, conjunction, interflow, join, joinder, joint, junction, knitting, knuckle, merger, muster, reunion, roll call, union), conjuntura (conjuncture, fortuity), articulação (join, joint, knee, knuckle, link, lith, pivot, pronouncing, speech, vocalization). (various references)

Romanian

punct de legãturã, perioadã criticã (climacteric), moment (flash, hour, instant, jiffy, minute, Mo, moment, one moment, page, point, second, shake, tick, time, trice, turn, twinkle, wait a bit), crizã (access, acme, attack, bout, climacteric, crisis, depression, fit, head, push, slump, spasm, turn), clipã (a flash of wit, hour, instant, minute, moment, point, second, tick, trice, wink). (various references)

Russian 

связь (affair, band, bandage, binding, brace, catena, cement, coherence, coherency, communication, communications, connection, connexion, context, coupling, intercommunication, intercourse, joint, junction, liaison, ligament, ligature, link, linkage, nexus, rapport, relation, relations, relationship, relationships, signalling, stay), соединение;момент, соединение (articulation, butt-joint, call, catenation, coalescence, combination, communication, composition, compound, conjugation, conjunction, copulation, coupling, halving, hookup, join, joinder, joining, joint, junction, liason, ligature, link up, linkage, seam, splice, synthesis), положение дел (lie of the land, state of affairs). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

junktura, trenutak (flash, instant, jiff, jiffy, minute, moment, point, trice, twinkling, wee), stanje stvari (conjuncture, state of affairs), spoj (compound, connection, contact, joggle, join, joint, rabbet, scarf), spajanje (amalgamation, binding, conjugation, docking, hookup, joinder, joining, junction, link up, linking up). (various references)

Spanish

juntura (join, joining, joint, junction, seam), lo de coyuntura, coyuntura (conjuncture, joint, moment, occasion), cosa coyuntura, articulación (articulation, formation, joint, knuckle, linkage, utterance). (various references)

Swedish

tidpunkt (date, hour, moment, time, when), kritisk tidpunkt (conjuncture). (various references)

Thai

ช่วงหัวเลี้ยวหัวต่อ. (various references)

Turkish

nazik durum, ek yeri (commissure, join, joint, scarf, splice, suture), dikiş yeri (seam, suture), birleşme yeri (joint, junction), birleşme (accord, alliance, association, coalescence, coalition, cohesion, concrescence, concretion, conjugation, conjunction, copulation, fusion, hookup, incorporation, integration, joinder, joining, meeting, merger, reunion, unification, union), önemli an. (various references)

Ukrainian

сполучення (bandage, communication, conjugation, connection, connexion, intercommunication), кон'юнктура (conjuncture). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự việc (event, host, job, picture, thing), sự nối liền chỗ nối, mối nối (joint), mối ghép (joint), điểm gặp nhau tình hình. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "juncture": junctures. (additional references)

Words ending with "juncture": conjuncture, disjuncture. (additional references)

Words containing "juncture": conjunctures, disjunctures. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Juncture" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: jucture, junture. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: uncute, untrue.

-3 letters: centu, cruet, curet, cuter, eruct, recut, truce, tuner, uncut.

-4 letters: cent, cure, curn, curt, cute, ecru, jute, rent, rune, runt, tern, true, tune, turn.

-5 letters: cue, cur, cut, ecu, ern, jet, jeu, jun, jut, net, nut, rec, ret, rue, run, rut, ten, tun, urn.

+1 letter: junctures.

+3 letters: conjuncture, disjuncture.

+4 letters: conjunctures, disjunctures.