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junctures

noun

Meaning

  1. A place where things join, a junction.
  2. A critical moment in time.
  3. 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.

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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