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adjunct

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1. adjunct - Noun

2. adjunct - Adjective

3. adjunct - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Conjoined; attending; consequent.

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

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

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."

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

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

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an ancillary pump Source: Internet

an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism Source: Internet

The mind and emotions are auxiliary to each other Source: Internet

A 2013 Cochrane review found very low to moderate evidence that SMT was no more effective than inert interventions, sham SMT or as an adjunct therapy for acute low back pain. Source: Internet

AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) was standardized as an adjunct to MPEG-2 (as Part 7) before MPEG-4 was issued. Source: Internet

A member of Mediators Beyond Borders International and the Academy of Professional Family Mediators, she also serves as adjunct faculty at Mitchell Hamline School of Law. Source: Internet

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