adjunct

Definitions

• 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) 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) 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.