Sekirov Dictionary

adjunct

/ˈæd͡ʒ.ʌŋkt/

noun11

  1. An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity.
  2. An unmalted grain or grain product that supplements the main mash ingredient.
  3. 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).
  4. A person associated with another, usually in a subordinate position; a colleague.
  5. Ellipsis of adjunct professor.
  6. A phrase within a clause or sentence that is grammatically dispensable but not semantically so, modifying the meaning.
  7. A constituent which is both the daughter and the sister of an X-bar.
  8. (old-fashioned) A quality or property of the body or mind, whether natural or acquired, such as colour in the body or judgement in the mind.
  9. A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key.
  10. One of a pair of morphisms which relate to each other through a pair of adjoint functors.
  11. (rhetoric) Symploce.

adjective2

  1. Connected in a subordinate function.
  2. Added to a faculty or staff in a secondary position.

verb1

  1. (informal) To work as an adjunct professor.
forms

adjuncted · adjuncting · adjuncts · more adjunct · most adjunct

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