adjunct
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ʌŋkt noun
1.
something added to another thing but not essential to it.
2.
a person associated with lesser status, rank, authority, etc., in some duty or service; assistant.
3.
a person working at an institution, as a college or university, without having full or permanent status: My lawyer works two nights a week as an adjunct, teaching business law at the college.
4.
Grammar. a modifying form, word, or phrase depending on some other form, word, or phrase, especially an element of clause structure with adverbial function.
adjective
5.
joined or associated, especially in an auxiliary or subordinate relationship.
6.
attached or belonging without full or permanent status: an adjunct surgeon on the hospital staff.
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Adjunct
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| the symbol (#) used for various purposes. |
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adjunct (ˈædʒʌŋkt) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | something incidental or not essential that is added to something else |
| 2. | a person who is subordinate to another |
| 3. | grammar |
| a. part of a sentence other than the subject or the predicate | |
| b. (in systemic grammar) part of a sentence other than the subject, predicator, object, or complement; usually a prepositional or adverbial group | |
| c. part of a sentence that may be omitted without making the sentence ungrammatical; a modifier | |
| 4. | logic another name for accident |
| —adj | |
| 5. | added or connected in a secondary or subordinate position; auxiliary |
| [C16: from Latin adjunctus, past participle of adjungere to | |
| adjunctive | |
| —adj | |
| 'adjunctly | |
| —adv | |
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Word Origin & History
adjunct
1580s, from L. adjunctus, pp. of adjungere "join to" (see adjoin). Adjunct professor is 1826, Amer.Eng.
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Example sentences
They are not an adjunct to modern life, or part of it, or a byproduct of it.
These readings are intended as an adjunct to general history texts and a corrective against the bias of a single author.
CT scanning could well be a useful adjunct to conventional autopsy, but it cannot replace it.
Still, understanding biodiversity can make it an important adjunct to conservation motivated by other concerns.
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