- something added to another thing but not essential to it.
- a person associated with lesser status, rank, authority, etc., in some duty or service; assistant.
- a person working at an institution, as a college or university, without having full or permanent status: My lawyer works two nights a week as an adjunct, teaching business law at the college.
- a modifying form, word, or phrase depending on some other form, word, or phrase, especially an element of clause structure with adverbial function.
- joined or associated, especially in an auxiliary or subordinate relationship.
- attached or belonging without full or permanent status: an adjunct surgeon on the hospital staff.
- something incidental or not essential that is added to something else
- a person who is subordinate to another
- grammar
- part of a sentence other than the subject or the predicate
- (in systemic grammar) part of a sentence other than the subject, predicator, object, or complement; usually a prepositional or adverbial group
- part of a sentence that may be omitted without making the sentence ungrammatical; a modifier
- logic another name for accident (def. 4)
- added or connected in a secondary or subordinate position; auxiliary