adjunct

/ˈædʒ.ʌŋkt/
/ˈædʒ.ʌŋkt/

noun

  1. An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity.

  2. A person associated with another, usually in a subordinate position; a colleague.

  3. An unmalted grain or grain product that supplements the main mash ingredient.

  4. A quality or property of the body or mind, whether natural or acquired, such as colour in the body or judgement in the mind.

  5. A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key.

  6. (grammar) A dispensable phrase in a clause or sentence that amplifies its meaning, such as "for a while" in "I typed for a while".

  7. (X-bar theory) A constituent which is both the daughter and the sister of an X-bar.

  8. Symploce.

  9. One of a pair of morphisms which relate to each other through a pair of adjoint functors.

Synonyms: addition, supplement

adjective

  1. Connected in a subordinate function.

  2. Added to a faculty or staff in a secondary position.