adjunct

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Noun

1. An [[appendage]]; something [[attach]]ed to something else in a [[subordinate]] [[capacity]].
2. A [[person]] [[associate]]d with another, usually in a subordinate [[position]]; a [[colleague]].
3. {{lb|en|education}} {{ellipsis of|en|adjunct professor}}.
4. {{lb|en|brewing}} An [[unmalted]] [[grain]] or grain product that [[supplement]]s the main [[mash]] ingredient.
5. {{lb|en|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. {{lb|en|music}} A [[key]] or [[scale]] closely related to another as [[principal]]; a relative or attendant key.
7. {{senseid|en|grammar}} {{lb|en|grammar}} A [[phrase]] within a [[clause]] or [[sentence]] that is [[grammatical]]ly [[dispensable]] but not [[semantic]]ally so, modifying the meaning.
8. {{lb|en|paleography}} 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 [[w:phonetic complement|phonetic complement]] that disambiguates the logogram).
9. {{lb|en|syntax|X-bar theory}} A [[constituent]] which is both the daughter and the sister of an [[X-bar]].
10. {{lb|en|rhetoric}} [[symploce|Symploce]].
11. {{lb|en|category theory}} One of a pair of [[morphism]]s which relate to each other through a pair of [[adjoint functor]]s.

Adjective

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

Verb

1. {{lb|en|intransitive|informal}} To work as an [[adjunct professor#Noun|adjunct professor]].

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