Ad’junct1, n.
n. [See infra.] 1. Something added to another thing, but not essentially a part of it. “The properties and adjuncts of God’s law.” Barrow.
Sense 2. A person joined to another in some duty or service; a colleague; as, an able adjunct.
☞ In the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, the adjuncts were a class of members attached to the pursuit of particular sciences. They were twelve in number, created in 1716. Encyc.
Sense 3. (Gram.) A word added to illustrate or amplify the force of other words; as, the History of the American Revolution, where the words in italics are the adjuncts of History.
Sense 4. (Metaph.) A quality of the body or the mind, whether natural or acquired; as color, in the body; thinking, in the mind.
Sense 5. (Mus.) A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key. [Rare.] See ATTENDANT.