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The act of joining, or the state of being joined; union; combination; coalition; as, the junction of two armies or detachments; the junction of paths.

A box through which the main conductors of a system of electric distribution pass, and where connection is made with branch circuits.

The act of joining; the thing joined or added.

ciation; league. He will unite the white rose and the red: Smille heaven upon his fair conjunction. Shak. Man can effect no great matter by his personal strength but as he acts in society and conjunction with others. South.

Relating to a conjunction.

The act of disjoining; disunion; separation; a parting; as, the disjunction of soul and body.

precept; a direction. For still they knew,and ought to have still remembered, The high injunction,not to taste that fruit. Milton. Necessary as the injunctions of lawful authority. South.

A mutual joining. [R.]

The act of disjoining, or the state of being disjoined. [Obs.] Bp. Pearson.

Something subjoined; as, a subjunction to a sentence.

A junction of two dissimilar conductors used to produce a thermoelectric current, as in one form of pyrometer; a thermocouple.

Expressing contrariety, opposition, or antithesis; as, an adversative conjunction (but, however, yet, etc. ); an adversative force. -- Ad*ver"sa*tive*ly, adv.

l at a given place. -- Moon's age, the time that has elapsed since the last preceding conjunction of the sun and moon.

Disjunctive; as, an alternative conjunction.

this contrivance increase its resistance several times. The anticoherer can be used in conjunction with a telephone.

The near approach of one heavenly body to another, or to the meridian; a coming into conjunction; as, the appulse of the moon to a star, or of a star to the meridian.

The hollow beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder; the axilla.

Characterized by the use of asyndeton; not connected by conjunctions. -- As`yn*det"ic*al*ly, adv.

Developed from an independent center of ossification. Owen. Autogenous soldering, the junction by fusion of the joining edges of metals without the intervention of solder.

The armpit, or the cavity beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder.