Definition of "adjunct" in English

noun

1. An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity.

2. A person associated with another, usually in a subordinate position; a colleague.

3. (education) Ellipsis of adjunct professor.

4. (brewing) An unmalted grain or grain product that supplements the main mash ingredient.

5. (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.

6. (music) A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key.

7. (grammar) A phrase within a clause or sentence that is grammatically dispensable but not semantically so, modifying the meaning.

8. (palaeography) A graphic element that modifies another, such as (in Linear B script) a small syllabogram that is attached to a logogram as an abbreviation of an adjective that modifies that logogram (rather than as a phonetic complement that disambiguates the logogram).

9. (syntax, X-bar theory) A constituent which is both the daughter and the sister of an X-bar.

10. (rhetoric) Symploce.

11. (category theory) One of a pair of morphisms which relate to each other through a pair of adjoint functors.

adjective

1. Connected in a subordinate function.

2. Added to a faculty or staff in a secondary position.

verb

1. (intransitive, informal) To work as an adjunct professor.