adjunct.
An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity.
Meaning & usage
An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity.
A person associated with another, usually in a subordinate position; a colleague.
Ellipsis of adjunct professor.
An unmalted grain or grain product that supplements the main mash ingredient.
A quality or property of the body or mind, whether natural or acquired, such as colour in the body or judgement in the mind.
A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key.
A phrase within a clause or sentence that is grammatically dispensable but not semantically so, modifying the meaning.
A graphic element that modifies another, such as (in Linear B script) a small syllabogram that is attached to a logogram as an abbreviation of an adjective that modifies that logogram (rather than as a phonetic complement that disambiguates the logogram).
A constituent which is both the daughter and the sister of an X-bar.
Symploce.
One of a pair of morphisms which relate to each other through a pair of adjoint functors.
Where this word comes from
From Latin adiunctus, perfect passive participle of adiungō (“join to”), from ad + iungō (“join”). Doublet of adjoint.
Connected in a subordinate function.
Added to a faculty or staff in a secondary position.
Where this word comes from
From Latin adiunctus, perfect passive participle of adiungō (“join to”), from ad + iungō (“join”). Doublet of adjoint.
To work as an adjunct professor.
Where this word comes from
From Latin adiunctus, perfect passive participle of adiungō (“join to”), from ad + iungō (“join”). Doublet of adjoint.
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