meaning of junctures
1. A joining; a union; an alliance.
2. The line or point at which two bodies are joined; a joint; an articulation; a seam; as, the junctures of a vessel or of the bones.
3. A point of time; esp. , one made critical or important by a concurrence of circumstances; hence, a crisis; an exigency.
4. an event that occurs at a critical time; "at such junctures he always had an impulse to leave"; "it was needed only on special
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