adjunct

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA ^(key): /ˈæˌdʒəŋkt/
• SAMPA: /"{%dZ@Nkt/

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• Hyphenation: ad‧junct

Noun

Singular adjunct

Plural adjuncts

1. An adjunct is something less important that is joined with something else.

   For her, beauty was an undoubted adjunct to her ability to move from one opportunity of employment up to another.

2. An adjunct is a professor who is not in a tenure-track position.

   Nationwide, salaries for full-time faculty held up well, but major shifts were underway replacing regular tenure-track faculty with adjuncts or other cost-saving devices (bigger classes, more teaching hours, using technology to reach more people).

3. (linguistics) (grammar) An adjunct is a modifier or supplement.

   In the sentence he arrived last week, last week functions as an adjunct.

Adjective

Positive adjunct

Comparative more adjunct

Superlative most adjunct

1. archaic: attendant upon

   Though that my death were adjunct to my act, By heaven, I would do it. (Shakespeare: King John III, Act 3, Line 57)