Adjunct

Definition:

  • (a.) Conjoined; attending; consequent.
  • (n.) Something joined or added to another thing, but not essentially a part of it.
  • (n.) A person joined to another in some duty or service; a colleague; an associate.
  • (n.) 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."
  • (n.) A quality or property of the body or the mind, whether natural or acquired; as, color, in the body, judgment in the mind.
  • (n.) A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key. [R.] See Attendant keys, under Attendant, a.

Compare adjunct with other words:

adjunct vs. adverbial

adjunct vs. ancillary

adjunct vs. following

adjunct vs. vacillant

adjunct vs. modify

accessory vs. adjunct

adjunct vs. assistant

adjunct vs. adjunctly

adjunct vs. excrescence

addition vs. adjunct

adjunct vs. expendable

adjunct vs. conjunct

adjunct vs. headword

adjunct vs. scene

adjunct vs. premise

adjunct vs. secondary

adjunct vs. faculty

adjunct vs. adjunctive

adjunct vs. principal

adjunct vs. scale

adjunct vs. key

adjunct vs. property

adjunct vs. quality

adjunct vs. sentence

adjunct vs. clause

adjunct vs. phrase

adjunct vs. dispensable

adjunct vs. colleague

adjunct vs. position

adjunct vs. associate

adjunct vs. person

adjunct vs. subordinate

adjunct vs. capacity

adjunct vs. attach

adjunct vs. appendage