adjunct

== English == === Etymology === From Latin adiunctus, perfect passive participle of adiungō (“join to”), from ad + iungō (“join”). Doublet of adjoint. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈæd͡ʒ.ʌŋkt/ Rhymes: -ædʒʌŋkt Hyphenation: ad‧junct === Noun === adjunct (plural adjuncts) An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity. Synonyms: addition, supplement; see also Thesaurus:adjunct A person associated with another, usually in a subordinate position; a colleague. Synonyms: see Thesaurus:associate, Thesaurus:attendant (education) Ellipsis of adjunct professor. (brewing) An unmalted grain or grain product that supplements the main mash ingredient. (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. (grammar) A phrase within a clause or sentence that is grammatically dispensable but not semantically so, modifying the meaning. Synonyms: circumstant, circumstantial Hyponyms: modifier, supplement Comeronyms: head, complement (palaeography) 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). (syntax, X-bar theory) A constituent which is both the daughter and the sister of an X-bar. (rhetoric) Symploce. (category theory) One of a pair of morphisms which relate to each other through a pair of adjoint functors. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== (grammar): predicate (often holonymous) === Adjective === adjunct (comparative more adjunct, superlative most adjunct) Connected in a subordinate function. Added to a faculty or staff in a secondary position. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Verb === adjunct (third-person singular simple present adjuncts, present participle adjuncting, simple past and past participle adjuncted) (intransitive, informal) To work as an adjunct professor. ==== Related terms ==== == Dutch == === Etymology === From Middle Dutch adjoinct, from Latin adiunctus. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɑˈdjʏŋkt/, /ɑtˈjʏŋkt/ Hyphenation: ad‧junct Rhymes: -ʏŋkt === Noun === adjunct m (plural adjuncten, no diminutive) an adjunct, a subordinate person, esp. an attendant of a government official ==== Related terms ==== adjunct-directeur ==== Descendants ==== → Indonesian: ajun → Javanese: ꦲꦗꦸꦤ꧀ (ajun), ꦲꦗꦸꦁ (ajung) == Romanian == === Etymology === Borrowed from German Adjunkt or Latin adjunctus. === Adjective === adjunct m or n (feminine singular adjunctă, masculine plural adjuncți, feminine/neuter plural adjuncte) deputy ==== Declension ====