Adjunctive vs. Adjunct

Adjunctive vs. Adjunct — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Adjunctive and Adjunct

Adjunctiveadjective

forming an adjunct

Adjunctnoun

An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity.

Adjunctiveadjective

additional; neither basic nor primary

adjunctive therapy

Adjunctnoun

A person associated with another, usually in a subordinate position; a colleague.

Adjunctiveadjective

(logic) the property of two operations x and y, such that ax(ayb) = a, and ay(axb) = a

Adjunctnoun

(brewing) An unmalted grain or grain product that supplements the main mash ingredient.

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Adjunctivenoun

(grammar) a connector joining two components of the same weight, such as a coordinating conjunction

Adjunctnoun

A quality or property of the body or mind, whether natural or acquired, such as colour in the body or judgement in the mind.

Adjunctivenoun

(manufacturing) a substance added as a supplement; often in the phrase "additives and adjunctives."

Adjunctnoun

(music) A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key.

Adjunctiveadjective

joining; forming an adjunct

Adjunctnoun

(grammar) A dispensable phrase in a clause or sentence that amplifies its meaning, such as "for a while" in "I typed for a while".

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Adjunctnoun

A constituent which is both the daughter and the sister of an X-bar.

Adjunctnoun

(rhetoric) Symploce.

Adjunctnoun

(category theory) One of a pair of morphisms which relate to each other through a pair of adjoint functors.

Adjunctadjective

Connected in a subordinate function.

Adjunctadjective

Added to a faculty or staff in a secondary position.

Adjunctnoun

something added to another thing but not an essential part of it

Adjunctnoun

a person who is an assistant or subordinate to another

Adjunctnoun

a construction that is part of a sentence but not essential to its meaning and can be omitted without making the sentence ungrammatical

Adjunctadjective

relating to something that is added but is not essential;

an ancillary pumpan adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticismThe mind and emotions are auxilliary to each other

Adjunctadjective

of or relating to a person who is subordinate to another