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Adjunct
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Meaning
Noun
●
An
appendage
; something
attached
to
something else
in a
subordinate
capacity.
●
A person associated with another, usually in a
subordinate
position
; a colleague.
●
In Brewing:
An
unmalted
grain
or
grain
product that
supplements
the main
mash
ingredient.
●
In 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
.
●
In Music:
A key or
scale
closely
related to another as
principal
; a
relative
or
attendant
key.
●
In Grammar:
A
dispensable
phrase
in a
clause
or
sentence
that
modifies
its meaning.
●
A
constituent
which is both the
daughter
and the
sister
of an X-bar.
●
In Rhetoric:
Symploce.
●
In Category theory:
One of a
pair
of
morphisms
which
relate
to
each other
through a
pair
of
adjoint
functors.
Adj
●
Connected in a
subordinate
function.
●
Added to a
faculty
or
staff
in a
secondary
position.
Verb
●
To work as an
adjunct
professor.
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Origin
adjunct
English
adiunctus
Latin
Sourced from
Etym
Synonyms
Addition
Supplement
Adjunct
Accessory
Accompaniment
Add-On
Affix
Annex
Apanage
Appendage
Appendix
Extra
Increase
Increment
Associate
Attendant
Adjoint
Expendable
More
Antonyms
Decrement
Remainder
Reduction
Related
Alternative
Undergraduate
Elective
Observership
Adjuvant
Complement
Educator
Antidote
Additive
Assistant
Substitute
Emeritus
Untenured
Addendum
Aid
Extension
Reference
Corrective
Therapy
Precursor
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