adjunct

From Latin adiunctus, perfect passive participle of adiungō (“join to”), from ad + iungō (“join”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈæd.ʒʌŋkt/

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• Hyphenation: ad‧junct

adjunct (plural adjuncts)

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

     Learning is but an adjunct to our self.

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

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Wotton to this entry?)

3. (brewing) An unmalted grain or grain product that supplements the main mash ingredient.
4. (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.
5. (music) 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. (syntax, X-bar theory) A constituent which is both the daughter and the sister of an X-bar.
   • 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 177:

     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 Comple-
     ments are sisters of N and daughters of N-bar. This means that Adjuncts re-
     semble Complements in that both are daughters of N-bar; but they differ from
     Complements in that Adjuncts are sisters of N-bar, whereas Complements are
     sisters of N. Likewise, it means that Adjuncts resemble Determiners in that
     both are sisters of N-bar, but they differ from Determiners in that Adjuncts
     are daughters of N-bar, whereas Determiners are daughters of N-double-bar.

8. (rhetoric) Symploce.
9. (category theory) One of a pair of morphisms which relate to each other through a pair of adjoint functors.

• (something attached to something else): addition, supplement; See also Thesaurus:adjunct
• (person associated with another): See also Thesaurus:associate (colleague) or Thesaurus:attendant (subordinate)

• adjuncthood
• adjunction
• adjunctive

adjunct (comparative more adjunct, superlative most adjunct)

1. Connected in a subordinate function.
   • Shakespeare

     Though that my death were adjunct to my act.

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