Meaning

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

    Hilfs-, Zusatz-, Ergänzung

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

    a person who is an assistant or subordinate to another

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

  4. (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.

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

  6. A phrase within a clause or sentence that is grammatically dispensable but not semantically so, modifying the meaning.

    Adjunkt, Angabe, fakultative Ergänzung

    a construction that can be used to extend the meaning of a word or phrase but is not one of the main constituents of a sentence

  7. 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).

  8. A constituent which is both the daughter and the sister of an X-bar.

  9. (rhetoric)Symploce.

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

Examples

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  1. What on earth is an adjunct?

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  2. Tom is an adjunct professor.

    ruТом — внештатный преподаватель.

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  3. There are grammar books that call these sorts of things, not modifiers, but adjuncts (A).

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Translations

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By meaning 2
appendage:
grammar: dispensable phrase:

Origin

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

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

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