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Webster 1913 Edition
Adjunct
Ad′junctˊ
,Adj.
Conjoined; attending; consequent.
Though that my death were
adjunct
to my act. Shakespeare
Adjunct notes
(Mus.)
, short notes between those essential to the harmony; auxiliary notes; passing notes.
Ad′junctˊ
,Noun.
1.
Something joined or added to another thing, but not essentially a part of it.
Learning is but an
adjunct
to our self. Shakespeare
2.
A person joined to another in some duty or service; a colleague; an associate.
Wotton.
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 “History4.
(Metaph.)
A quality or property of the body or the mind, whether natural or acquired;
as,
. color
, in the body, judgment
in the mind5.
(Mus.)
A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key.
[R.]
See Attendant keys
, under Attendant
, Adj.
Webster 1828 Edition
Adjunct
AD'JUNCT
,Noun.
1.
Something added to another, but not essentially a part of it; as, water absorbed by a cloth or spunge is its adjunct. Also a person joined to another.2.
In metaphysics, a quality of the body or the mind, whether natural or acquired; as color, in the body; thinking, in the mind.3.
In grammar, words added to illustrate or amplify the force of other words; as, the History of the American revolution. The words in Italics are the adjuncts of History.4.
In music, the word is employed to denominate the relation between the principal mode and the modes of its two fifths.The adjunct deities, among the Romans, were inferior deities which were added as assistants to the principal gods; as Bellona to Mars; to Vulcan, the Cabiri; to the Good Genius, the Lares; to the Evil, the Lemures.
In the royal academy of sciences at Paris, the adjuncts are certain members attached to the study of particular sciences. They are twelve in number, created in 1716.
Adjunct has been used for a colleague, but rarely.
AD'JUNCT
,Adj.
Definition 2024
adjunct
adjunct
English
Noun
adjunct (plural adjuncts)
- An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity.
- Shakespeare
- Learning is but an adjunct to our self.
- Shakespeare
- A person associated with another, usually in a subordinate position; a colleague.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Wotton to this entry?)
- (grammar) A dispensable phrase in a clause or sentence that amplifies its meaning, such as "for a while" in "I typed for a while".
- (rhetoric) Symploce.
- (dated, metaphysics) A quality or property of the body or mind, whether natural or acquired, such as colour in the body or judgement in the mind.
- (music) A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key.
- (syntax, X-bar theory) A constituent which is both the daughter and the sister of an X-bar.
- 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 177:
- We can see from (34) that Determiners are sisters of N-bar and daughters of
N-double-bar; Adjuncts are both sisters and daughters of N-bar; and Comple-
ments are sisters of N and daughters of N-bar. This means that Adjuncts re-
semble Complements in that both are daughters of N-bar; but they differ from
Complements in that Adjuncts are sisters of N-bar, whereas Complements are
sisters of N. Likewise, it means that Adjuncts resemble Determiners in that
both are sisters of N-bar, but they differ from Determiners in that Adjuncts
are daughters of N-bar, whereas Determiners are daughters of N-double-bar.
- We can see from (34) that Determiners are sisters of N-bar and daughters of
-
- (category theory) One of a pair of morphisms which relate to each other through a pair of adjoint functors.
Derived terms
- adjuncthood
- adjunctive
Translations
appendage
Adjective
adjunct (comparative more adjunct, superlative most adjunct)
- Connected in a subordinate function.
- Shakespeare
- Though that my death were adjunct to my act.
- Shakespeare
- Added to a faculty or staff in a secondary position.
Translations
Connected in a subordinate function
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