adjunct

noun adjuncts

1. An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity. Lie here ye weedes that I diſdaine to weare, This compleat armor, and this curtle-axe / Are adiuncts more beſeeming Tamburlaine.
2. A person associated with another, usually in a subordinate position; a colleague. [H]e made him the aſſociate of his Heir apparant, together vvith the nevv Lord Cottington (as an adjunct of ſingular experience and truſt) in forraine travailes, and in a buſineſſe of Love, and of no equall hazzard […]
3. abbreviation, ellipsis Ellipsis of adjunct professor.adjunct professor I've been given the chance to do this through my own department and through university programmes that don't have tenure-track lines and are therefore more likely to seek assistance from adjuncts.
4. An unmalted grain or grain product that supplements the main mash ingredient.
5. dated A quality or property of the body or mind, whether natural or acquired, such as colour in the body or judgement in the mind.
6. A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key.
7. A phrase within a clause or sentence that is grammatically dispensable but not semantically so, modifying the meaning. When a female enters the profession, she is generally not referred to as doctor but as a lady doctor or woman doctor. The use of "feminizing" adjuncts designates a deviation from the norm, doctor, and does not carry the weight of the term unmodified.
8. A graphic element that modifies another, such as (in Linear B script) a small syllabogram that is attached to a logogram as an abbreviation of an adjective that modifies that logogram (rather than as a phonetic complement that disambiguates the logogram).
9. A constituent which is both the daughter and the sister of an X-bar. We can see from (34) that Determiners are sisters of N-bar and daughters of N-double-bar; Adjuncts are both sisters and daughters of N-bar; and Complements are sisters of N and daughters of N-bar. This means that Adjuncts resemble Complements in that both are daughters of N-bar; but they differ from
10. rhetoric Symploce.
11. One of a pair of morphisms which relate to each other through a pair of adjoint functors.

Similar: accessory, accompaniment, addition, add-on, adjunct, affix, annex, infusion, apanage, appendage, appendix, extra

adjective more adjunct · most adjunct

1. Connected in a subordinate function. Though that my death were adiunct to my Act, By heauen I would doe it.
2. Added to a faculty or staff in a secondary position.

verb adjuncts · adjuncting · adjuncted

1. informal, intransitive To work as an adjunct professor. I also nannied through the first part of graduate school. I had friends who bartended or worked at a wine store and also adjuncted. A lot of people would package these jobs together.