something added to another thing but not essential to it.
a person associated with lesser status, rank, authority, etc., in some duty or service; assistant.
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.
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
joined or associated, especially in an auxiliary or subordinate relationship.
attached or belonging without full or permanent status: an adjunct surgeon on the hospital staff.
Origin of adjunct
1580–90; <Latin adjunctus joined to (past participle of adjungere), equivalent to ad-ad- + jung- (nasal variant of jug-yoke1) + -tus past participle suffix
An adjunct professor at Stanford University, he’s also been a novelist, TV host of PBS’s The Brain, and science advisor for the HBO series Westworld.
Your Brain Makes You a Different Person Every Day - Issue 91: The Amazing Brain|Steve Paulson|October 14, 2020|Nautilus
Lyndsay Levingston Christian is a multimedia talent, host and adjunct professor based in Houston, Texas.
The Anatomy Of A Breast Cancer Survivor: ‘Early Detection Saved My Life’|Charli Penn|October 6, 2020|Essence.com
Robert Bazell is an adjunct professor of molecular, cellular, and developmental biology at Yale.
The Case for Rapid At-Home COVID Testing for Everyone - Facts So Romantic|Robert Bazell|August 5, 2020|Nautilus
She said the campuses all limit their tenured faculty so that they can retain flexibility to hire adjunct professors – and that flexibility could be utilized now to implement the requirement.
Sacramento Report: Ethnic Studies Dispute Pits CSU Against Lawmakers|Sara Libby and Maya Srikrishnan|July 24, 2020|Voice of San Diego
She appeared at his side, impish smile in place, dutiful, fragrantly rather than ferociously sexy, and—frustratingly—an adjunct.
How Can Katie Holmes Escape Tom Cruise—and ‘Dawson’s Creek’?|Tim Teeman|October 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
At first Wales and Sanger conceived of Wikipedia merely as an adjunct to Nupedia, sort of like a feeder product or farm team.
You Can Look It Up: The Wikipedia Story|Walter Isaacson|October 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Bouts of landays may be a formal part of a family gathering or may emerge more spontaneously as an adjunct to collective labor.
Beauty and Subversion in the Secret Poems of Afghan Women|Daniel Bosch|April 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“They got letters,” says Simo Muir, adjunct professor of Jewish Studies at Helsinki University.
The Jews Who Fought for Hitler: ‘We Did Not Help the Germans. We Had a Common Enemy’|The Telegraph|March 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The students I teach as an adjunct are pointed toward midlevel careers.
We Overvalue College|Professor X|September 11, 2011|DAILY BEAST
He thought this measure was a very fitting, if not an indispensable, adjunct to the winding up of the great difficulty.
A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln|John G. Nicolay
When I get a photograph I treasure it as an adjunct to the sketch.
Boy Scouts Handbook|Boy Scouts of America
It is an adjunct to the other house, which is, besides, quite full of guests.
The Haunted Homestead|E. D. E. N. Southworth
Miss Mazerod, who possessed a very firm little specimen of the adjunct mentioned, drew herself up and smiled commiseratingly.
From One Generation to Another|Henry Seton Merriman
An adjunct to this suit was the cloth cover for the sniper's rifle.
America's Munitions 1917-1918|Benedict Crowell
British Dictionary definitions for adjunct
adjunct
/ (ˈædʒʌŋkt) /
noun
something incidental or not essential that is added to something else
a person who is subordinate to another
grammar
part of a sentence other than the subject or the predicate
(in systemic grammar) part of a sentence other than the subject, predicator, object, or complement; usually a prepositional or adverbial group
part of a sentence that may be omitted without making the sentence ungrammatical; a modifier
logic another name for accident (def. 4)
adjective
added or connected in a secondary or subordinate position; auxiliary