EGAVE

adjunct

About 2.22 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity.
  2. noun A person associated with another, usually in a subordinate position; a colleague.
  3. noun Ellipsis of adjunct professor.
  4. noun An unmalted grain or grain product that supplements the main mash ingredient.
  5. noun 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. noun A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key.
  7. noun A phrase within a clause or sentence that is grammatically dispensable but not semantically so, modifying the meaning.
  8. noun 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).

Similar words

accessory appurtenant ancillary subsidiary auxiliary adjuvant supportive assistant subordinate low-level

Often followed by

to of professor in faculty for and or associate

Word family

adjunctive adjunctly adjuncts

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