adjunct

ad·junct

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noun

The definition of an adjunct is someone who is holding a part time or temporary position at a school.
An example of an adjunct is a professor who comes in to teach one class during a semester.
Adjunct is defined as something additional that is not necessary, but that is extra or additional.
An example of something adjunct would be the second basket added to a bicycle.

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adjunct

a thing added to something else, but secondary or not essential to it
1. a person connected with another as a helper or subordinate associate
2. an adjunct teacher, professor, etc.
Gram. a word or phrase that qualifies or modifies another word or other words

Origin of adjunct

from Classical Latin adjunctus, past participle of adjungere, adjoin

connected or attached in a secondary or subordinate way, or in a temporary or part-time position

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adjunct

noun

Something attached to another in a dependent or subordinate position. See Synonyms at attachment.
A person associated with another in a subordinate or auxiliary capacity.
Grammar A clause or phrase added to a sentence that, while not essential to the sentence's structure, amplifies its meaning, such as for several hours in We waited for several hours.
Logic A nonessential attribute of a thing.

adjective

Added or connected in a subordinate or auxiliary capacity: an adjunct clause.
Attached to a faculty or staff in a temporary or auxiliary capacity: an adjunct professor of history.

Origin of adjunct

From Latin adiūnctus past participle of adiungere to join to ; see adjoin .

Related Forms:

ad·junc′tion
noun

ad·junc′tive
adjective

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Noun

(plural adjuncts)

An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity.
A person associated with another, usually in a subordinate position; a colleague.
(grammar) A dispensable phrase in a clause or sentence that amplifies its meaning, such as "for a while" in "I typed for a while".
(rhetoric) Symploce.
(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.
(music) A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key.
(syntax, X-bar theory) A constituent which is both the daughter and the sister of an X-bar.