adjunct
IPA: ˈædʒʌŋkt
noun
- An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity.
- A person associated with another, usually in a subordinate position; a colleague.
- (brewing) An unmalted grain or grain product that supplements the main mash ingredient.
- (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.
- (music) A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key.
- (grammar) A dispensable phrase in a clause or sentence that modifies its meaning.
- (syntax, X-bar theory) A constituent which is both the daughter and the sister of an X-bar.
- (rhetoric) Symploce.
- (category theory) One of a pair of morphisms which relate to each other through a pair of adjoint functors.
verb
- (intransitive, informal) To work as an adjunct professor.
adjective
- Connected in a subordinate function.
- Added to a faculty or staff in a secondary position.
Advertisement
Examples of "adjunct" in Sentences
- Phentermine Resin is indicated in the management of exogenous obesity as a short-term adjunct a few weeks in a regimen of weight reduction.
- Phentermine hydrochloride is used as a short-term adjunct in a regimen for weight reduction that includes exercise, behavioral modification and caloric restrictions.
- Someone I know was hired at Harvard for what s/he took to be a long-term adjunct position, because the ad said "three-year contract renewable" rather than "tenure track."
- Will they be taught by tenured faculty who are committed to the institution, or by short-term adjunct instructors in huge classrooms, who don't have the time to offer much personal contact or guidance?
- As someone whose partner was a long-term adjunct, I really understand the bitterness, the rage, and the sense that slights and insults are embedded within many interactions with administrators and tenure-stream faculty.
- "Science is not only cool, it's really important for the future of this country, and it's great to have people we call adjunct professors here, to help lend their real-life experiences to stimulate junior high students to the wonders of science."
- Phentermine Hydrochloride is indicated as a short-term adjunct in a regimen of weight reduction based on exercise, behavioral modification and caloric restriction in the management of exogenous obesity for patients with an initial body mass index ≥ 30 kg/m
- Phentermine Hydrochloride is indicated as a short-term adjunct in a regimen of weight reduction based on exercise, behavioral modification and caloric restriction in the management of exogenous obesity for patients with an initial body mass index ≥ 30 kg/m2, or ≥ 27 kg/m2 in the presence of other risk factors (e.g., hypertension, diabetes, and hyperlipidemia).
Advertisement
Advertisement