Adjunct

Definition: Adjunct

Adjunct

Adjective

1. Relating to something that is added but is not essential; "an ancillary pump"; "an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism"; "The mind and emotions are auxilliary to each other".

2. Of or relating to a person who is subordinate to another.

Noun

1. Something added to another thing but not an essential part of it.

2. A person who is an assistant or subordinate to another.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "adjunct" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1590. (references)

Language

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Adjunct

Accompaniment

Noun: accompaniment; adjunct; context; appendage, appurtenance.

Adjunct

Noun: adjunct; addition, additament; additum, affix, appelidage, annexe, annex; augment, augmentation; increment, reinforcement, supernumerary, accessory, item; garnish, sauce; accompaniment; adjective, addendum; complement, supplement; continuation.

Aid

Supplies, reinforcements, reenforcements, succors, contingents, recruits; support; (physical); adjunct, ally; (helper).

Auxiliary

Noun: auxiliary; recruit; assistant; adjuvant, adjutant; ayudante, coaid; adjunct; help, helper, help mate, helping hand; midwife; colleague, partner, mate, confrere, cooperator; coadjutor, coadjutrix; collaborator.

Crosswords: Adjunct

Dutch (assistant), Romanian (adjoint, adjunct, assistant, deputy).

I admire you as a policeman, particularly your adherence to violence as a necessary adjunct to the job. (L.A. Confidential; writing credit: Brian Helgeland)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Adjunct Professor's Guide to Success, The: Surviving and Thriving in the College Classroom (reference)

• Ghosts in the Classroom : Stories of College Adjunct Faculty--and the Price We All Pay (reference)

• Intraoperative Cytology: An Adjunct to Frozen Sections (reference)

• Managing Adjunct Part Time Faculty for the New Millennium (reference)

• Mentoring Foreign Language TA's, Lecturers, and Adjunct Faculty: AAUSC 2000 Volume (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Adjunct Advocate (reference)

• Adjunct Info (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

High Tech

• AT&T 325 Adjunct Caller ID Unit (reference)

• NBX DSS/BLF ADJUNCT GRY-BLK (reference)

• Southwestern Bell FM112 Adjunct, 50 Memory, 3-Line Display Caller ID (White) (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Health

Support groups can provide an important adjunct to drug or surgical treatment. (references)

Intra-operative cholangiography has been variably used as an adjunct to this operation. (references)

The drug also may be used as an adjunct to surgery intraoperatively and postoperatively. (references)

Business

As an adjunct to the July 6 elections, IFE and UNICEF organized in the first children's elections ever held in the country. (references)

Human Rights

Panama

In June Ricardo Julio Vargas, adjunct Ombudsman, unexpectedly visited La Joyita and reported witnessing human rights violations. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "adjunct": adjunct assistant ♦ Adjunct notes ♦ adjunct professor. Additional references.

Ending with "adjunct": of-adjunct, pre-adjunct, Secretaries-adjunct.

Afrikaans

bepaling (condition, definition, fixing, regulation, stipulation, terms). (various references)

Albanian

zëvendësues (acting, deputy, ersatz, expletive, fill in, locum tenens, makeshift, stand by, stand in, stopgap, substitute, substitution, surrogate), plotës rrethanor, ndihmës (accessary, accessory, acolyte, adjutant, adjuvant, aid, aide, ancillary, assistant, auxiliary, candle holder, coadjutant, coadjutor, first mate, gillie, help, helper, henchman, mate, paramedical, second, secondary, servo, sidekick, subsidiary, tutor). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مساعد بروفسور, ‏الملحق, ‏المساعد (aid, assistant, helper). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сътрудник (associate, collaborator, contributor, contributory, co-operator, copartner), случаен белег, спомагателен (accessary, accessory, accidental, ancillary, auxiliary, helping, pilot, servo-, subsidiary, supporting, tributary), временен сътрудник, временен помощник, обстоятелствено пояснение, определение (attribute, definition, modifier, qualificative, qualifier), несъществен белег, притурка (accompaniment, add, addendum, addition, appendix, inset), приложение (addendum, annex, application, enclosure, practice), придатък (appendage, appendix), помощник (acolyte, adjuvant, affiliate, aid, aide, ally, assistant, auxiliary, candle holder, coadjutor, confederate, help, helper, lieutenant, mate, pander, second, secondary, subsidiary), помощен (adjuvant, ancillary, auxiliary, helping, pilot, pony, relief, servo-, subservient, subsidiary), допълнение (addendum, addition, affix, afterthought, amplification, annexe, complement, object, pendant, supplement), допълнителен (accessary, accessorial, accidental, additional, additive, complementary, contributory, excess, expletive, extra, extraordinary, farther, follow up, fresh, further, over, plus, pony, relief, side, subsidiary, supplementary, tributary). (various references)

Chinese 

附属 (Affiliated, Pertain, Pertained, Pertaining, subordination). (various references)

Czech

pomocník (assistant, gillie, helper, helpmate, sidekick), přídavek (allowance, bonus, encore, grant-in-aid, supplement). (various references)

Danish

adled (attribute, modifier), supplement (supplement). (various references)

Dutch

toevoegsel (additive, adjuvant), supplement (supplement), complement (complement), bepaling (clause, condition, definition, fixing, regulation, stipulation, terms), bývoegsel. (various references)

Esperanto

komplemento. (various references)

Faeroese

sagnarfylling, fullfíggjan. (various references)

Farsi 

یار (Adjutant, Billy, Buddy, Chummy, Friend, Helper, Helpmate, Mistress, Pal, Paramour, Partner, Playmate, Sweetheart, Turtledove, Yokefellow), فرعی (Accessory, Ancillary, By, Bye, Derivative, Extraneous, Inferior, Petty, Secondary, Sideway, Subordinate, Subsidiary, Tributary), ملازم (Attendant, Concomitant, Retainer, Valet), معاون (Accessory, Assistant, Helpmeet, Secondbest, Vicar), قسمت الحاقی , ضمیمه (Addendum, Annex, Appendage, Appendix, Appurtenance, Enclosure, Supplement), صفت فرعی , افزوده (Addend, Additional), الحاقی (Extension). (various references)

Finnish

määre (attribute, qualification, qualifier). (various references)

French

adjoint. (various references)

German

Beigabe (addition, free gift, side dish). (various references)

Greek 

συνακόλουθο, συμπλήρωμα (accessory, addendum, complement, refill, supplement, top up), παρεπόμενο, επιπρόσθετο (add-on), αναπληρωτής (stopgap). (various references)

Hebrew 

לואי (accompanying, attachment, attribute, auxiliary, if, if only, secondary, would that), טפל (additional, ancillary, insipid, subsidiary, tasteless, unsalted). (various references)

Hungarian

adjunktus (assistant, assistant professor, lecturer, senior lecturer), színpadi kellék (stage-property), segéd (assistant, auxiliary, coadjutor, Famulus, mate, servant, walla, wallah), bővítmény, asszisztens (aid, assistant, helper, surgeon's mate). (various references)

Indonesian

asisten (assistant), ajung, kata keteragan (adv, adverb), kalimat keterangan. (various references)

Italian

appendice (addendum, appendage, appendix, tag), aggiunto (assistant, associate, second in command, sidekick), aggiunta (addend, addenda, addends, addendum, addition, afterthought, endorsement, extra, insertion, suffix), accessorio (accessary, accessory, appurtenance, attachment, secondary, subsidiary), complemento aggiunto, complemento (complement, reserve). (various references)

Manx

taahit (adjunction, soldered, synthetic, welded), lhiantit (adjunction). (various references)

Pig Latin

adjunctay.(various references)

Portuguese

auxiliar (accessorial, accomodate, adjuvant, aid, ancillary, assist, assistant, auxilary, avail, back, cad, candle-holder, favor, favour, friend, hand, handy man, help, helper, lend a hand, minister, ministerial, patronize, preventer, protect, relieve, second, secondary, subsidiary, succor, succour, support), atributo secundário, adjunto (assessor, attached, joined), acessório (accessory, accidental, accompaniment, appendant, attachment, collateral, fixture, incidental, paraphernalia, secondary, side, subsidiary, unessential), complemento (article, complement, object, thing). (various references)

Romanian

atribut (affection, attribute, attributive, emblem, hall mark, sign, symbol), ajutor (abettor, accommodation, accomplice, adjoint, adjutancy, adjutant, adjuvant, adminicle, aid, ancillary, assistance, assistant, auxiliary, backer, backing, collaboration, contribution, co-operation, deputy, easement, fire, friend, furtherance, help, helper, helpfulness, helping, mate, means, ministrant, office, redress, refuge, relief, remedy, rescue, salvation, saver, second, service, sos, staff, stand by, stead, succor, succour, support, supporter, sustainer, upholder), adjunct (adjoint, assistant, deputy), adaos (accession, addendum, addition, adjunction, admixture, alloy, amplification, annex, appendage, appendix, attachment, augmentation, codicil, increase, make-weight, rider, rise, schedule, sequel, supplement), accesoriu (accessary, accessories, accessory, accidental, adjunctive, adventitious, appendant, appurtenance, appurtenant, attachment, bye, fixture, second, secondary, subordinate, subsidiary), subordonat (adjective, ancillary, dependent, inferior, junior, paternalized, subordinate, under), complinire (complement, completion). (various references)

Russian 

определение (appreciation, attribute, definition, designation, determination, evaluation, specification), адъюнкт (assistant), приложение (addenda, addendum, annex, apendices, apendix, aposition, app appendix, appendices, appendix, appendix (to), application, apposition, run on, supplement). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pomoćnik (adjuvant, aid, aide, associate, auxiliary, call-boy, coadjutor, contributor, deputy, famulus, help, helper, helpmate, helpmeet, mate, potman, subsidiary), pomoćni (adventitious, ancillary, appurtenant, auxiliary, relief, subsidiary, suffragan), na određeno vreme, honorarni, dodatak (add, addendum, addition, additive, adulterant, affix, annex, appendage, appendix, apposition, appurtenance, context, extra, insert, makeweight, overplus, plus, supplement). (various references)

Spanish

adjunto (appendant, appositional, associate, attached, enclosed, herewith, therein). (various references)

Swedish

tillsats (additive, admixture, adulterant, alloy, attachment, dash). (various references)

Turkish

yardımcı (accessary, accessory, acolyte, aid, aide, ancillary, assistant, auxiliary, Band aid, booster, coadjutor, collateral, contributory, cooperative, deputy, donkey, friend, help, helper, helpful, helpmate, helpmeet, henchman, lieutenant, obliging, second, sidekick, stand by, sub, subsidiary, suffragan, supporter, supporting, vice-), tamamlayan, tamamlayıcı (collateral, complement, complemental, complementary, component, expletive, follow up, integral, integrant, modifier, processor, supplement, supplemental, supplementary), niteleme sözcüğü, ilave (accretion, addendum, addition, additional, annex, appendage, appendix, appurtenance, bye-, excess, extension, extra, insertion, inset, pendant, plusage, plussage, rider, schedule, supplement, supplemental, supplementary, supplementation), ikinci dereceden şey, ek (addendum, addition, additional, annex, appendage, appendix, appurtenance, by-, bye-, extension, extra, formative, further, insertion, inset, postscript, schedule, super-, supplement, supplemental, supplementary, supplementation). (various references)

Ukrainian

означення (attribute, attributive), ад'юнкт, придаток (affix, appendage, appendant, appendix, appurtenance, pendicle), помічник (acolyte, adjutant, adjuvant, aid, ally, assistant, auxiliary, candle holder, contributor, help, helper, helpmate, second, secondary, seconder, subsidiary, tender), доповнення (accompaniment, addenda, adder, addition, annex, annexe, appendage, codicil, complement, obverse, refill, tail piece), додаток (addendum, adjunction, affix, annex, annexe, appendage, appendant, appendix, codicil, complement, enclosure, inclosure, object, supplement). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vật phụ thuộc người phụ việc, phụ v� o; phụ thuộc phụ, phụ tá (adjuvant), cái phụ v� o, điều thêm v� o. (various references)

Welsh

atodiad (addition, appendix, supplement), ychwanegiad (addition, appendix). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "adjunct": adjunction, adjunctions, adjunctive, adjunctly, adjuncts. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Adjunct" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abjunct, adiunct, adjent, adjunkt, adjunt, ajunct. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: adunc, daunt, ducat, jaunt, junta.

-3 letters: aunt, cant, daut, duct, dunt, tuna.

-4 letters: act, and, ant, cad, can, cat, cud, cut, dun, jun, jut, nut, tad, taj, tan, tau, tun, uta.

-5 letters: ad, an, at, na, nu, ta, un, ut.

+1 letter: adjuncts.

+2 letters: adjunctly, adjutancy.

+3 letters: adjunction, adjunctive, conjugated.

+4 letters: adjunctions, adjutancies.

+5 letters: adjudicating, adjudication, unconjugated.