a point of time, esp. one made critical or important by a concurrence of circumstances

At this juncture, we must decide whether to stay or to walk out.

a serious state of affairs; crisis

The matter has reached a juncture and a decision must be made.

the line or point at which two bodies are joined; joint or articulation; seam.

the act of joining.

the state of being joined.

something by which two things are joined.

Phonetics .

a pause or other phonological feature or modification of a feature, as the lengthening of a preceding phoneme or the strengthening of a following one, marking a transition or break between sounds, esp. marking the phonological boundary of a word, clause, or sentence

it is present in such words as night-rate and re-seed and absent in such words as nitrate and recede. Compare close juncture open juncture terminal juncture

the point in a word or group of words at which such a pause or other junctural marker occurs.

noun

choice , circumstance , condition , contingency , crisis , crossroad , crux , emergency , exigency , instant , meeting point , moment , occasion , pass , pinch , plight , point , position , posture , predicament , quandary , state , status , strait , time , zero hour *notes:junction means the place where two or more things come together while juncture means an event that occurs at a critical time or point in time when a critical decision must be made , connection , coupling , junction , seam , union , climacteric , exigence , head , turning point , zero hour , conjuncture , crossroads , hinge , joint , linkup