adjunct

noun

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

   “Lie here ye weedes that I diſdaine to weare, This compleat armor, and this curtle-axe / Are adiuncts more beſeeming Tamburlaine.”

   “Learning is but an adiunct to our ſelfe, And where we are, our Learning likewiſe is.”

   “A boot-stand, on which all the boots and shoes should be arranged in regular order, with boot-jacks and boot-hooks, is a necessary adjunct to the gentleman's dressing-room.”

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

   “[H]e made him the aſſociate of his Heir apparant, together vvith the nevv Lord Cottington (as an adjunct of ſingular experience and truſt) in forraine travailes, and in a buſineſſe of Love, and of no equall hazzard […]”

3. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis)Ellipsis of adjunct professor.

   “I've been given the chance to do this through my own department and through university programmes that don't have tenure-track lines and are therefore more likely to seek assistance from adjuncts.”

4. An unmalted grain or grain product that supplements the main mash ingredient.
5. (dated)A quality or property of the body or mind, whether natural or acquired, such as colour in the body or judgement in the mind.
6. A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key.
7. A phrase within a clause or sentence that is grammatically dispensable but not semantically so, modifying the meaning.

   “When a female enters the profession, she is generally not referred to as doctor but as a lady doctor or woman doctor. The use of "feminizing" adjuncts designates a deviation from the norm, doctor, and does not carry the weight of the term unmodified.”

8. A graphic element that modifies another, such as (in Linear B script) a small syllabogram that is attached to a logogram as an abbreviation of an adjective that modifies that logogram (rather than as a phonetic complement that disambiguates the logogram).
9. A constituent which is both the daughter and the sister of an X-bar.
10. (rhetoric)Symploce.
11. One of a pair of morphisms which relate to each other through a pair of adjoint functors.

adj

1. Connected in a subordinate function.

   “Though that my death were adiunct to my Act, By heauen I would doe it.”

2. Added to a faculty or staff in a secondary position.

verb

1. (informal, intransitive)To work as an adjunct professor.

   “I also nannied through the first part of graduate school. I had friends who bartended or worked at a wine store and also adjuncted. A lot of people would package these jobs together.”

   “A sudden fantasy emerges of Adam adjuncting at Hannah's college, a sweet Mr. Mom to Paul-Louis' (Riz Ahmed) baby while Hannah becomes a professor slash internet celeb -- but there I go writing fanfiction.”

   “In Want, out this month, Strong homes in on those themes. In this novel, her second, narrator Elizabeth is raising two small children with her husband, a carpenter, in New York City, while going through a bankruptcy and teaching low-income students at a charter school and adjuncting at a prestigious university.”

   “I wish I had a cut and dry answer to this question. When I adjunct at the University of Baltimore, I get asked a similar question by my students every semester.”