Adjunct \Ad"junct`\, a. [L. adjunctus, p. p. of adjungere. See
Adjoin.]
Conjoined; attending; consequent.
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Though that my death were adjunct to my act. --Shak.
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Adjunct notes (Mus.), short notes between those essential
to the harmony; auxiliary notes; passing notes.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Adjunct \Ad"junct`\, n.
1. Something joined or added to another thing, but not
essentially a part of it.
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Learning is but an adjunct to our self. --Shak.
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2. A person joined to another in some duty or service; a
colleague; an associate. --Wotton.
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3. (Gram.) 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."
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4. (Metaph.) A quality or property of the body or the mind,
whether natural or acquired; as, color, in the body,
judgment in the mind.
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5. (Mus.) A key or scale closely related to another as
principal; a relative or attendant key. [R.] See
Attendant keys, under Attendant, a.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
adjunct
adj 1: relating to something that is added but is not essential;
"an ancillary pump"; "an adjuvant discipline to forms
of mysticism"; "The mind and emotions are auxilliary
to each other" [syn: accessory, ancillary, adjuvant,
appurtenant, auxiliary, subsidiary]
2: of or relating to a person who is subordinate to another
[syn: assistant]
n 1: something added to another thing but not an essential part
of it
2: a person who is an assistant or subordinate to another
3: a construction that is part of a sentence but not essential
to its meaning and can be omitted without making the
sentence ungrammatical
WordNet (r) 2.0
194 Moby Thesaurus words for "adjunct":
accession, accessory, accident, accidental, accord, accretion,
addendum, addition, adjunction, adornment, affairs, affiliation,
affinity, affix, affixation, agglutination, aggrandizement,
alliance, ally, ampliation, amplification, annexation, appanage,
appendage, appendix, approximation, appurtenance, arrangement,
aspect, assemblage, associate, association, attachment, attendant,
augmentation, auxiliary, bedfellow, bond, broadening, brother,
brother-in-arms, circumstance, closeness, coadjutor, cohort,
collateral, colleague, color, color patterns, combination,
companion, compatriot, compeer, component, comrade, concomitant,
confederate, confrere, connectedness, connection, consociate,
consort, constituent, contents, contiguity, contingency,
contingent, contrariety, corollary, crescendo, crony,
cross section, dealings, decor, decoration, deduction, deployment,
detachment, detail, disjunction, dispersion, division, dole,
elaboration, element, embellishment, emblazonment, emblazonry,
embroidery, enlargement, expansion, extension, extra, factor,
fanning out, feature, fellow, fellow member, filiation, fixings,
fixture, flare, flourish, flower arrangement, fraction,
furniture arrangement, garnish, garnishment, garniture,
happenstance, hiking, homology, illumination, incidental, increase,
inessential, ingredient, installment, integrant, intercourse,
intimacy, item, joining, junction, juxtaposition, liaison, link,
linkage, linking, magnification, makings, mere chance,
mutual attraction, nearness, nonessential, not-self, ornament,
ornamentation, other, parcel, part, part and parcel, particular,
percentage, portion, prefixation, propinquity, proximity, quadrant,
quarter, quota, raising, random sample, rapport, reinforcement,
relatedness, relation, relations, relationship, remainder, sample,
sampling, secondary, section, sector, segment, share, similarity,
specialty, splay, spread, spreading, subdivision, subgroup,
subsidiary, subspecies, suffixation, superaddition, superfetation,
superjunction, superposition, supplement, supplementation,
sympathy, tie, tie-in, trim, trimming, unessential, union, uniting,
upping, widening, window dressing
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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