Adjunct

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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