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What does adjunct mean?

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Noun
  1. An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity.
  2. A person associated with another, usually in a subordinate position; a colleague.
  3. (dated, metaphysics) A quality or property of the body or mind, whether natural or acquired, such as colour in the body or judgement in the mind.
  4. (music) A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key.
  5. (grammar) A dispensable phrase in a clause or sentence that amplifies its meaning, such as "for a while" in "I typed for a while".
  6. (syntax, X-bar theory) A constituent which is both the daughter and the sister of an X-bar.
  7. (rhetoric) Symploce.
  8. (category theory) One of a pair of morphisms which relate to each other through a pair of adjoint functors.
Adjective
  1. Connected in a subordinate function.
  2. Added to a faculty or staff in a secondary position.
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