<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a point of time, especially one made critical or important by a concurrence of circumstances: At this juncture, we must decide whether to stay or to walk out.</li><li>a serious state of affairs; crisis: The matter has reached a juncture and a decision must be made.</li><li>the line or point at which two bodies are joined; joint or articulation; seam.</li><li>the act of joining.</li><li>the state of being joined.</li><li>something by which two things are joined.</li><li>(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, especially 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.</li><li>the point in a word or group of words at which such a pause or other junctural marker occurs.</li></ul>