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Adjunct

Adjunct Meaning & Definition
Adjunct Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Adjunct?

[n] a construction that is part of a sentence but not essential to its meaning and can be omitted without making the sentence ungrammatical
[n] something added to another thing but not an essential part of it
[n] a person who is an assistant or subordinate to another
[adj] of or relating to a person who is subordinate to another
[adj] relating to something that is added but is not essential; "an ancillary pump"; "an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism"; "The mind and emotions are auxilliary to each other"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Adjunct: accessory | adjuvant | ancillary | appurtenant | assistant | auxiliary | low-level | subordinate | subsidiary | supportive

Related Terms | Find terms related to Adjunct: accession | accessory | accident | accidental | accord | accretion | addendum | addition | adjunction | adornment | affairs | affiliation | affinity | affix | affixation | agglutination | aggrandizement | alliance | ally | ampliation | amplification | annexation | appanage | appendage | appendix | approximation | appurtenance | arrangement | aspect | assemblage | associate | association | attachment | attendant | augmentation | auxiliary | bedfellow | bond | broadening | brother | brother-in-arms | circumstance | closeness | coadjutor | cohort | collateral | colleague | color | color patterns | combination | companion | compatriot | compeer | component | comrade | concomitant | confederate | confrere | connectedness | connection | consociate | consort | constituent | contents | contiguity | contingency | contingent | contrariety | corollary | crescendo | crony | cross section | dealings | decor | decoration | deduction | deployment | detachment | detail | disjunction | dispersion | division | dole | elaboration | element | embellishment | emblazonment | emblazonry | embroidery | enlargement | expansion | extension | extra | factor | fanning out | feature | fellow | fellow member | filiation | fixings | fixture | flare | flourish | flower arrangement | fraction | furniture arrangement | garnish | garnishment | garniture | happenstance | hiking | homology | illumination | incidental | increase | inessential | ingredient | installment | integrant | intercourse | intimacy | item | joining | junction | juxtaposition | liaison | link | linkage | linking | magnification | makings | mere chance | mutual attraction | nearness | nonessential | not-self | ornament | ornamentation | other | parcel | part | part and parcel | particular | percentage | portion | prefixation | propinquity | proximity | quadrant | quarter | quota | raising | random sample | rapport | reinforcement | relatedness | relation | relations | relationship | remainder | sample | sampling | secondary | section | sector | segment | share | similarity | specialty | splay | spread | spreading | subdivision | subgroup | subsidiary | subspecies | suffixation | superaddition | superfetation | superjunction | superposition | supplement | supplementation | sympathy | tie | tie-in | trim | trimming | unessential | union | uniting | upping | widening | window dressing

See Also | associate | construction | expression | grammatical construction | inessential | nonessential | parenthetical | parenthetical expression

Adjunct In Webster's Dictionary

\Ad"junct`\, a. [L. adjunctus, p. p. of adjungere. See {Adjoin}.] Conjoined; attending; consequent. Though that my death were adjunct to my act. --Shak. {Adjunct notes} (Mus.), short notes between those essential to the harmony; auxiliary notes; passing notes.
\Ad"junct`\, n. 1. Something joined or added to another thing, but not essentially a part of it. Learning is but an adjunct to our self. --Shak. 2. A person joined to another in some duty or service; a colleague; an associate. --Wotton. 3. (Gram.) A word or words added to quality or amplify the force of other words; as, the History of the American Revolution, where the words in italics are the adjunct or adjuncts of ``History.'' 4. (Metaph.) A quality or property of the body or the mind, whether natural or acquired; as, color, in the body, judgment in the mind. 5. (Mus.) A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key. [R.] See {Attendant keys}, under {Attendant}, a.

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