An Adjunct
- An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity.
- A person associated with another, usually in a subordinate position; a colleague.
- (brewing) An unmalted grain or grain product that supplements the main mash ingredient.
- (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.
- (music) A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key.
- (grammar) A dispensable phrase in a clause or sentence that amplifies its meaning, such as "for a while" in "I typed for a while".
- (syntax, X-bar theory) A constituent which is both the daughter and the sister of an X-bar.
- (rhetoric) Symploce.
- (category theory) One of a pair of morphisms which relate to each other through a pair of adjoint functors.
| Synonyms |
(something attached to something else): addition, supplement
(person associated with another): associate (colleague) or attendant (subordinate)