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where roads, wires, and fates argue about which way to go next.
means A point where two or more things—roads, railway lines, wires, rivers—meet or join together.
from From Latin 'iunctio,' meaning 'a joining,' built on the verb 'iungere,' 'to join'—the same root that yokes together 'join,' 'conjunction,' and even 'yoke' itself (all distant cousins through the Proto-Indo-European root *yeug-, 'to join'). It entered English in the 18th century, and the railway boom soon nailed it firmly to the place where tracks converge.
- neurons too
- Brain synapses are biological junctions firing electricity
- Spaghetti Junction
- Birmingham's interchange has 559 supporting concrete columns
- transistor heart
- Silicon junctions switch every electronic device you own
- gap junctions
- Cells share molecules through tiny direct channels
grand central terminal — nyc train hub where 21 railroad tracks meet, opened 1913
clapham junction — south london railway junction, one of europe's busiest with 2,000+ trains daily
seven sisters road junction — london intersection where multiple roads converge, historically a major traffic bottleneck