Associations to the word «Juncture»

Wiktionary

JUNCTURE, noun. A place where things join, a junction.
JUNCTURE, noun. A critical moment in time.
JUNCTURE, noun. (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.

Dictionary definition

JUNCTURE, noun. 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".
JUNCTURE, noun. 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".
JUNCTURE, noun. The shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin