Background for adjuncts

adjuncts

/ˈædʒʌŋkts/

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

Examples :

"At the university, the library and the computer lab are important adjuncts to the students' learning experience. "

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

Examples :

"Professor Lee relied heavily on her adjuncts to grade papers and lead discussion sections in the large introductory biology course. "

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

Examples :

"Many brewers use rice and corn as adjuncts in their beer to lighten the body and flavor. "

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

Examples :

"Intelligence and creativity are valuable adjuncts to success in many fields. "

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

Examples :

""While the piece was primarily in C major, the composer cleverly used its relative minor, A minor, and other adjuncts to create a richer harmonic texture." "

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

Examples :

"The sentence is: "In the sentence 'She read the book quickly in the library,' the words 'quickly' and 'in the library' are adjuncts, adding information about how and where she read, but the sentence still makes sense without them." "

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

Examples :

"In the syntax tree, "quickly" and "in the morning" are adjuncts modifying the verb phrase "ate breakfast," each attaching to and branching off from a bar-level node of that phrase. "

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Symploce.

Examples :

"The teacher used adjuncts in her lesson, linking the history of art to the current events of the students' lives. "

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One of a pair of morphisms which relate to each other through a pair of adjoint functors.

Examples :

"In advanced mathematics, defining the relationship between certain functions can be simplified by considering them as adjuncts to each other within a broader structure. "