adjuvant
An additive that enhances the efficacy of a pesticide, but has little or no pesticidal…Someone or (more commonly) something that assists, facilitates, or helps; an aid, an assistant, a helper.: An additive (often a separate product) that enhances the efficacy of a pesticide, but has little or no pesticidal effect itself.
» The adjuvant participates in the development of the event.
Meaning
4 sensesSomeone or (more commonly) something that assists, facilitates, or helps; an aid, an assistant, a helper.
(formal)An additive (often a separate product) that enhances the efficacy of a pesticide, but has little or no pesticidal effect itself.
(formal)A substance enhancing the immune response to an antigen.
(formal)A form of therapy or treatment which is additional or supplementary to another, or which enhances the effectiveness of another.
an additive that enhances the effectiveness of medical treatment
(archaic, formal)An additive which aids or modifies the action of the principal ingredient of a drug.
Examples
2 sentencesThe adjuvant participates in the development of the event.
Vaccines against swine and avian flu can be made more effective by the addition of a helper serum known as an adjuvant.
Translations
1 languagesOrigin
Learned borrowing from Latin adiuvant-, adjuvant- + English -ant (suffix forming adjectiveLearned borrowing from Latin adiuvant-, adjuvant- + English -ant (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘exhibiting a condition or process’; and forming agent nouns). Adiuvant-, adjuvant- are oblique stems of adiuvāns, adjuvāns (“assisting, helping”), the present active participle of adiuvō (“to assist, help; to be useful; etc.”), from ad- (“prefix meaning ‘to; toward’”) + iuvō (“to aid, help; to save”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ewH- (“to assist, help; to save”)).
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