An event that occurs at a critical time:
— At such junctures he always had an impulse to leave.

synonym: occasion.

Roget 134: timeliness, occasion, opportunity, opening, room; event (eventuality) 151; suitable season, proper season, suitable time, proper time; high time; opportuneness etc. adj.; tempestivity^†.    crisis, turn, juncture, conjuncture; crisis, turning point, given time.    nick of time; golden opportunity, well timed opportunity, fine opportunity, favorable opportunity, opening; clear stage, fair field; mollia tempora [Lat.]; fata Morgana [Lat.]; spare time etc. (leisure) 685.    ... show more

Roget 151: eventuality, event, occurrence, incident, affair, matter, thing, episode, happening, proceeding, contingency, juncture, experience, fact; matter of fact; naked fact, bare facts, just the facts; phenomenon; advent.    business, concern, transaction, dealing, proceeding; circumstance, particular, casualty, accident, adventure, passage, crisis, pass, emergency, contingency, consequence; opportunity (occasion) 143.    the world, life, things, doings, affairs in general; things in general, affairs in general; the times, state of affairs, order of the day; course of things, tide of things, stream of things, current of things, run of things, march of things, course of events; ups and downs of life, vicissitudes of life; chapter of accidents etc. (chance) 156; situation etc. (circumstances) 8.    ... show more

Roget 8: circumstance, situation, phase, position, posture, attitude, place, point; terms; regime; footing, standing, status.    occasion, juncture, conjunctive; contingency etc. (event) 151.    predicament; emergence, emergency; exigency, crisis, pinch, pass, push; occurrence; turning point.    bearings, how the land lies.    surroundings, context, environment 232; location 184.    contingency, dependence (uncertainty) 475; causation 153, attribution 155.    ... show more

Dutch: gelegenheid

A crisis situation or point in time when a critical decision must be made:
— At that juncture he had no idea what to do.

synonyms: critical point, crossroads.

The shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made.

synonyms: articulation, join, joint, junction.

Roget 43: junction; joining etc. v.; joinder [Law], union connection, conjunction, conjugation; annexion^†, annexation, annexment^†; astriction^†, attachment, compagination^†, vincture^†, ligation, alligation^†; accouplement^†; marriage etc. (wedlock,) 903; infibulation^†, inosculation^†, symphysis [Anat.], anastomosis, confluence, communication, concatenation; meeting, reunion; assemblage etc. 72.    coition, copulation; sex, sexual congress, sexual conjunction, sexual intercourse, love-making.    joint, joining, juncture, pivot, hinge, articulation, commissure^†, seam, gore, gusset, suture, stitch; link etc. 45; miter mortise.    closeness, tightness, etc. adj.; coherence etc. 46; combination etc. 48.    annexationist.    ... show more

Dutch: aanhechtingspunt