adjunct (ajungkt)

and n. [L. adjunct us, joined to, added, pp. of adjungere: see adjoin.] I. a. 1. United with another (generally in a subordinate capacity) in office or in action of any kind: as, an adjunct profe or.-2. Added to or conjoined with, as a consequence; attending; accompanying. Though that my death were adjunct to my act, By Heaven, I would do it. Shak., K. John, iii. 3. Adjunct diagnostics. See diagnostic . Adjunct note, in music , an unaccented auxiliary note not forming an e ential part of the harmony. II. n. 1. Something added to another, but not e entially a part of it. adjunct Learning is but an adjunct to ourself. Shak., L. L. L., iv. 3. Discretion in its several adjuncts and circumstances is nowhere so useful as to the clergy. Swift . 2. A person joined to another in some duty or service; an a istant or subordinate colleague. An adjunct of singular experience and trust. Sir H. Wotton . In the Royal Academy of Science at Paris, there are twelve members called adjuncts attached to the study of Buchanan, Dict. Sci. some particular science. 3. In metaph., any quality of a thing not pertaining to its e ence.-4. In gram., a word or a number of words added to define, limit, or qualify the force of another word or other words; a word or phrase having value in a sentence only as dependent on another member of the sentence, as an adjective, an adverb, the words of a dependent clause, etc.-5. In music, a scale or key closely related to another; a relative scale or key. - External, internal, etc., adjunct. See the adjectives.