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juncture
[ juhngk-cher ]
noun
- a point of time, especially one made critical or important by a concurrence of circumstances:
At this juncture, we must decide whether to stay or to walk out.
- a serious state of affairs; crisis:
The matter has reached a juncture and a decision must be made.
- the line or point at which two bodies are joined; joint or articulation; seam.
- the act of joining.
- the state of being joined.
- something by which two things are joined.
- Phonetics.
- a pause or other phonological feature or modification of a feature, as the lengthening of a preceding phoneme or the strengthening of a following one, marking a transition or break between sounds, especially marking the phonological boundary of a word, clause, or sentence: it is present in such words as night-rate and re-seed and absent in such words as nitrate and recede. Compare close juncture, open juncture, terminal juncture.
- the point in a word or group of words at which such a pause or other junctural marker occurs.
juncture
/ 藞诲萧蕦艐办迟蕛蓹 /
noun
- a point in time, esp a critical one (often in the phrase at this juncture )
- linguistics
- a pause in speech or a feature of pronunciation that introduces, accompanies, or replaces a pause
- the set of phonological features signalling a division between words, such as those that distinguish a name from an aim
- a less common word for junction
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Idioms and Phrases
see at this point (juncture) .Synonym Study
Example Sentences
鈥淎t this juncture, it is unclear how many individuals have received similar notices and what the correct next steps are,鈥 the alert states.
When asked how he would define his career at this juncture, Bacon winced a little bit, saying it isn鈥檛 something he does too often.
But at the most important juncture of USC鈥檚 season, Smith showed no signs of slowing.
His main concern at this juncture was the effect it was having on the economy which he needed to be booming before the fall campaign.
At every juncture, if somebody鈥檚 like, 鈥極h, but here鈥檚 this social rule or assumption that I made that this is breaking,鈥 I鈥檓 like, 鈥榃e don鈥檛 give a f鈥 about it.鈥
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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