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adjunct

noun
/ˈæd͡ʒ.ʌŋkt/

Etymology

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

  1. learned borrowing from adiunctus

Definitions

  1. An appendage

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

    • Lie here ye weedes that I diſdaine to weare, This compleat armor, and this curtle-axe / Are adiuncts more beſeeming Tamburlaine.
    • Learning is but an adiunct to our ſelfe, And where we are, our Learning likewiſe is.
    • A boot-stand, on which all the boots and shoes should be arranged in regular order, with boot-jacks and boot-hooks, is a necessary adjunct to the gentleman's dressing-room.

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

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

    • [H]e made him the aſſociate of his Heir apparant, together vvith the nevv Lord Cottington (as an adjunct of ſingular experience and truſt) in forraine travailes, and in a buſineſſe of Love, and of no equall hazzard […]

  3. Ellipsis of adjunct professor.

    • I've been given the chance to do this through my own department and through university programmes that don't have tenure-track lines and are therefore more likely to seek assistance from adjuncts.
  4. ›+ 11 more definitions

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

    2. A quality or property of the body or mind, whether natural or acquired, such as colour in…

      A quality or property of the body or mind, whether natural or acquired, such as colour in the body or judgement in the mind.

    3. A key or scale closely related to another as principal

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

    4. A phrase within a clause or sentence that is grammatically dispensable but not…

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

    5. A graphic element that modifies another, such as (in Linear B script) a small syllabogram…

      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).

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

    7. Symploce.

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

    9. Connected in a subordinate function.

      • Though that my death were adiunct to my Act, By heauen I would doe it.

    10. Added to a faculty or staff in a secondary position.

    11. To work as an adjunct professor.

      • I also nannied through the first part of graduate school. I had friends who bartended or worked at a wine store and also adjuncted. A lot of people would package these jobs together.
      • A sudden fantasy emerges of Adam adjuncting at Hannah's college, a sweet Mr. Mom to Paul-Louis' (Riz Ahmed) baby while Hannah becomes a professor slash internet celeb -- but there I go writing fanfiction.

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Derived

adjuncthood, adjunction, adjunctive, adjunct professor, adjunct treatment, numerary adjunct, adjunctification, adjunctly, nonadjunct

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at adjunct. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at adjunct. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at adjunct

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA