What is the meaning of the word "juncture"?

Definitions:

  1. a crisis situation or point in time when a critical decision must be made copy to clipboard noun
    • At that juncture you had no idea what to do. copy to clipboard
  2. an event that occurs at a critical time copy to clipboard noun
    • At such junctures I always have an impulse to leave. copy to clipboard

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