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.
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