Associations to the word «Adjunct»

Wiktionary

ADJUNCT, noun. An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity.
ADJUNCT, noun. A person associated with another, usually in a subordinate position; a colleague.
ADJUNCT, noun. (grammar) A dispensable phrase in a clause or sentence that amplifies its meaning, such as "for a while" in "I typed for a while".
ADJUNCT, noun. (rhetoric) Symploce.
ADJUNCT, noun. (dated) (metaphysics) A quality or property of the body or mind, whether natural or acquired, such as colour in the body or judgement in the mind.
ADJUNCT, noun. (music) A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key.
ADJUNCT, noun. (syntax) (X-bar theory) A constituent which is both the daughter and the sister of an X-bar.
ADJUNCT, adjective. Connected in a subordinate function.
ADJUNCT, adjective. Added to a faculty or staff in a secondary position.
ADJUNCT TREATMENT, noun. (Medicine) An additional treatment (e.g., a drug or procedure) used for increasing the efficacy or safety of a primary treatment.
ADJUNCT TREATMENTS, noun. Plural of adjunct treatment

Dictionary definition

ADJUNCT, noun. Something added to another thing but not an essential part of it.
ADJUNCT, noun. A person who is an assistant or subordinate to another.
ADJUNCT, noun. A construction that can be used to extend the meaning of a word or phrase but is not one of the main constituents of a sentence.
ADJUNCT, adjective. Furnishing added support; "an ancillary pump"; "an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism"; "The mind and emotions are auxiliary to each other".
ADJUNCT, adjective. Of or relating to a person who is subordinate to another.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats