meaning of adjunct
1. Conjoined; attending; consequent.
2. Something joined or added to another thing, but not essentially a part of it.
3. A person joined to another in some duty or service; a colleague; an associate.
4. A word or words added to quality or amplify the force of other words; as, the History of the American Revolution, where the words in italics are the adjunct or adjuncts of "History. 5.">"
5. A quality or property of the body or the mind, whether natural or acquired; as, color, in the body, judgment in the mind.
6. A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key. [R. ] See Attendant keys, under Attendant, a.
7. a construction that is part of a sentence but not essential to its meaning and can be omitted without making the sentence ungrammatical
Related Words
adjunct | adjunction | adjunctive | adjunctively | adjunctly |
