crossroads

nouns

a community of people smaller than a village
crossroads, hamlet
a crisis situation or point in time when a critical decision must be made
"at that juncture he had no idea what to do"; "he must be made to realize that the company stands at a critical point"
critical point, crossroads, juncture
a point where a choice must be made
"Freud's work stands at the crossroads between psychology and neurology"
crossroads
is a type of (narrower)
a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena
"there was no overlap between their proposals"
convergence, intersection, overlap