juncture🔊

A place where things join, a junction. +

A critical moment in time. +

(linguistics) The manner of moving (transition) or mode of relationship between two consecutive sounds; a suprasegmental phonemic cue, by which a listener can distinguish between two otherwise identical sequences of sounds that have different meanings {{n-g|(for example, distinguishing "a name" from "an aim" or "fork handles" from "four candles")}}.