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Adjunct   /ˈædʒˌəŋkt/   Listen
noun
Adjunct  n.  
1.
Something joined or added to another thing, but not essentially a part of it. "Learning is but an adjunct to our self."
2.
A person joined to another in some duty or service; a colleague; an associate.
3.
(Gram.) A word or words added to quality or amplify the force of other words; as, the History of the American Revolution, where the words in italics are the adjunct or adjuncts of "History."
4.
(Metaph.) A quality or property of the body or the mind, whether natural or acquired; as, color, in the body, judgment in the mind.
5.
(Mus.) A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key. (R.) See Attendant keys, under Attendant, a.



adjective
Adjunct  adj.  Conjoined; attending; consequent. "Though that my death were adjunct to my act."
Adjunct notes (Mus.), short notes between those essential to the harmony; auxiliary notes; passing notes.






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"Adjunct" Quotes from Famous Books



... the world's history has it been granted to dream grandiose dreams and all but realize them, to use by turns the telescope and the microscope of political survey, to plan vast combinations of force, and yet to supervise with infinite care the adjustment of every adjunct. Caesar, in the old world, was possibly the mental peer of Bonaparte in this majestic equipoise of the imaginative and practical qualities; but of Caesar we know comparatively little; whereas the complex workings of the greatest mind of ...
— The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2) • John Holland Rose

... look upon relief as a right—a state of things which sometimes happens among ourselves at home. Medical aid is therefore most valuable in young missions, though at all stages it is an extremely valuable adjunct to other operations. ...
— Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa - Journeys and Researches in South Africa • David Livingstone

... experience, after my patience and forbearance, I have surely the right to protest against the untruth (would that I could apply to it any other word!) that evangelical religion, or any religion in a violent form, is a wholesome or valuable or desirable adjunct to human life. It divides heart from heart. It sets up a vain, chimerical ideal, in the barren pursuit of which all the tender, indulgent affections, all the genial play of life, all the exquisite pleasures and ...
— Father and Son • Edmund Gosse

... proceed to introduce to our readers the apparatus of this class illustrated in the above engravings. This is a hoist (Cherry's patent) manufactured by Messrs. Tangye Brothers, of London and Birmingham, and which experience has proved to be a most useful adjunct in warehouses, railway stations, hotels, and the like. Fig. 1 of our engraving shows a perspective view of the hoist, Fig. 2 being a longitudinal section. It will be seen that this apparatus is of very simple construction, the motion ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 286 - June 25, 1881 • Various

... senses, taken by itself; but yet the relation of words one to another in a sentence, has no other signification than what I intend by it, namely, of cause, effect, means, end, manner, instrument, object, adjunct, and the like; which are names given by logicians to those relations under which the mind comprehends things, and therefore the most proper words to explain them to others. And if such things are ...
— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown


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