Adjunct

What do we mean by adjunct?

Something attached to another in a dependent or subordinate position. synonym: attachment. noun

A person associated with another in a subordinate or auxiliary capacity. noun

A clause or phrase added to a sentence that, while not essential to the sentence's structure, amplifies its meaning, such as for several hours in We waited for several hours. noun

A nonessential attribute of a thing. noun

Added or connected in a subordinate or auxiliary capacity. adjective

Attached to a faculty or staff in a temporary or auxiliary capacity. adjective

United with another (generally in a subordinate capacity) in office or in action of any kind: as, an adjunct professor. Added to or conjoined with, as a consequence; attending; accompanying.

Something added to another, but not essentially a part of it. noun

A person joined to another in some duty or service; an assistant or subordinate colleague. noun

In metaphysics, any quality of a thing not pertaining to its essence. noun

In grammar, a word or a number of words added to define, limit, or qualify the force of another word or other words; a word or phrase having value in a sentence only as dependent on another member of the sentence, as an adjective, an adverb, the words of a dependent clause, etc. noun

In music, a scale or key closely related to another; a relative scale or key. noun

Conjoined; attending; consequent. adjective

Short notes between those essential to the harmony; auxiliary notes; passing notes. adjective

Something joined or added to another thing, but not essentially a part of it. noun

A person joined to another in some duty or service; a colleague; an associate. noun

A word or words added to quality or amplify the force of other words.” noun

A quality or property of the body or the mind, whether natural or acquired. noun

A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key. R. See Attendant keys, under Attendant, a. noun

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

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

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

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.

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

(X-bar theory) 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.

Words that are spelled similarly to adjunct:
adjunct.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word adjunct:
professor, professorship, faculty, lecturer, instructor, epidemiology, cato, emory, associate, mellon, psychiatry, visiting, clauses, anthropology, johns, curator, journalism, biomedical, entrepreneurship, university, seminary, emeritus, hopkins, theological, seminar, taught, scholar, graduate, noun, teaching, columbia, ucla, law, mater, medicine, verb, institute, carnegie, mba, therapy, yale, polytechnic, sociology, clinical, fellow, alma, clause, physics, psychology, assistant, biology, theology, berkeley, astronomy, mit, department, sciences, scientist, courses, ethics, harvard, advisor, advocacy, consultant, college, stanford, economics, studies, teach, engineering, honorary, chair, chemistry, science, appointment, school, philosophy, mathematics, research, doctorate, diego, member.

Words that rhyme with adjunct:
defunct, tinct, debunked, kinked, chinked, skunked, unked, junked, flunked, prinked, dunked, dinked, pinked, bunked, zinced, trunked, chunked, plunked, clunked, clinked, funked, spelunked.

Adjectives that are often used to describe adjunct:
useful, important, valuable, necessary, indispensable, time, mere, essential, helpful, effective, invaluable, natural, powerful, adverbial, excellent, diagnostic, desirable, therapeutic, vital, inseparable, minor, inevitable, decorative, interesting, prepositional, predicative, logical, beneficial, convenient, surgical, unnecessary, invariable, welcome, adjective, routine, safe, frequent, profitable, attributive, pleasant, temporary, temporal, ornamental, crucial, suitable, locative, agreeable, optional, attractive, worthwhile, efficient, admirable, fitting, dietary, promising, preoperative, subordinate, accidental, incidental, unimportant, picturesque.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective adjunct:
professor, distinction, word, argument, words, treatment, prof, position, therapy, head, complement, construction, structure, treatments, clause, clauses, asymmetries, effects, case, materials, pos, combinations, predicate, undergoer, signs, mayor, asymmetry, model, collector, curator, principle, pps, operator, type, secretary.

Words that sound like adjunct:
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