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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024ad•junct /ˈædʒʌŋkt/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- something added to another thing but that is not essential to it.
- a person who is an associate or assistant of another.
adj. - associated in a temporary or subordinate relationship:an adjunct professor.
See -junc-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024ad•junct (aj′ungkt),USA pronunciation n. - 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.
- Grammara modifying form, word, or phrase depending on some other form, word, or phrase, esp. an element of clause structure with adverbial function.
adj. - joined or associated, esp. in an auxiliary or subordinate relationship.
- Educationattached or belonging without full or permanent status:an adjunct surgeon on the hospital staff.
- Latin adjunctus joined to (past participle of adjungere), equivalent. to ad- ad- + jung- (nasal variant of jug- yoke1) + -tus past participle suffix
- 1580–90
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged appendix, supplement. See addition.
- 2.See corresponding entry in Unabridged aide, attaché.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: adjunct /ˈædʒʌŋkt/ n - something incidental or not essential that is added to something else
- a person who is subordinate to another
- part of a sentence other than the subject or the predicate
- part of a sentence that may be omitted without making the sentence ungrammatical; a modifier
adj - added or connected in a secondary or subordinate position; auxiliary
Etymology: 16th Century: from Latin adjunctus, past participle of adjungere to adjoinadjunctive /əˈdʒʌŋktɪv/ adj ˈadjunctly adv |