Junction is a pseudostate (see Section 20.11, “ Pseudostate ”) which is used to split an incoming transition into multiple outgoing transition segments with different guard conditions. A Junction is also called a Merge or Static conditional branch. The chosen transition is that whose guard is true at the time of the transition.

A predefined guard denoted else may be defined for at most one outgoing transition. This transition is enabled if all the guards labeling the other transitions are false.

According the UML standard, its symbol is a small black circle. Alternatively, it may be represented by a diamond shape (in case of "Decision" for Activity diagrams). ArgoUML only represents a junction on the diagram as a solid (white by default) diamond, and does not support the black circle symbol for a junction.