Adjunct

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1. Adjective

Conjoined; attending; consequent.

2. Noun

Something joined or added to another thing, but not essentially a part of it.

3. Noun

A person joined to another in some duty or service; a colleague; an associate.

4. Noun

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."

5. Noun

A quality or property of the body or the mind, whether natural or acquired; as, color, in the body, judgment in the mind.

6. Noun

A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key. [R.] See Attendant keys, under Attendant, a.

7. Adjective

furnishing added support; "an ancillary pump"; "an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism"; "The mind and emotions are auxiliary to each other"
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8. Noun

a construction that can be used to extend the meaning of a word or phrase but is not one of the main constituents of a sentence
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