Adjunct
- n. A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key. [R.] See Attendant keys, under Attendant, a.
- a. Conjoined; attending; consequent.
- n. Something joined or added to another thing, but not essentially a part of it.
- n. A person joined to another in some duty or service; a colleague; an associate.
- n. A word or words added to quality or amplify the force of other words; as, the History of the American Revolution, where the words in italics are the adjunct or adjuncts of “History.”
- n. A quality or property of the body or the mind, whether natural or acquired; as, color, in the body, judgment in the mind.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.