hiatus vs junction

hiatus

noun
  • An interruption, break or pause. 

  • A gap in a series, making it incomplete. 

  • An opening in an organ. 

  • A gap in geological strata. 

  • A syllable break between two vowels, without an intervening consonant. (Compare diphthong.) 

  • An unexpected break from work. 

junction

noun
  • A point in time between two unrelated consecutive broadcasts. 

  • A place where two things meet, especially where two roads meet. 

  • A place where two or more railways or railroads meet. 

  • The boundary between two physically different materials, especially between conductors, semiconductors, or metals. 

  • The act of joining, or the state of being joined. 

  • The place where a distributary departs from the main stream. 

  • In the Raku programming language, a construct representing a composite of several values connected by an operator. 

  • electrical junction: a point or area where multiple conductors or semiconductors make physical contact. 

  • A kind of symbolic link to a directory. 

verb
  • To form a junction. 

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