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Meaning of 'adjunct' (Webster Dictionary)

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

Meaning of 'adjunct' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . adjunct [ s]
Meaning (1):
- furnishing added support
Example in sentence:
  • an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism;
  • an ancillary pump;
  • The mind and emotions are auxiliary to each other

Nearby Words:

adjacence adjacency adjacent adjacently adject adjection adjectional adjectitious adjectival adjectivally

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