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What is the noun for adjuncts?

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adjunct
  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.
  9. Synonyms:
  10. Examples:
    1. “A library is an essential adjunct to a school, college or university.”
      “Up until 1940, he worked as an adjunct at the Collège de France at Ivry, in the laboratory of atomic synthesis, under the direction of Frédéric Joliot.”
adjunction
  1. The act of joining; the thing joined or added.
  2. (category theory) A form of similarity between a pair of categories, which are mapped to each other by a pair of adjoint functors which come with a related pair of natural transformations called unit and counit which satisfy a pair of triangular identities.
  3. (law) The joining of personal property owned by one to that owned by another.
  4. Examples:
    1. “The problem of de Groot concerned compactifications of spaces by means of an adjunction of a set of minimal dimension.”
      “We also suppose that the logic of L enjoys LEM and EFQ and satisfies DP and adjunction.”
      “These conditions correspond to Lewis's rules of strict inference, adjunction and substitution of strict equivalents.”
adjunctive
  1. (grammar) a connector joining two components of the same weight, such as a coordinating conjunction
  2. (manufacturing) a substance added as a supplement; often in the phrase "additives and adjunctives."
adjunctivity
  1. The state or quality of being adjunctive, or of forming or constituting an adjunct
adjunctiveness
  1. the state or quality of being adjunctive
adjunctions
  1. plural of adjunction
adjunctives
  1. plural of adjunctive
adjuncts
  1. plural of adjunct
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “This is the first book devoted fully to adjuncts telling their own stories in their own words.”
      “Of course, line items must be included in the budget to cover adjuncts for parental leaves.”
      “Criminality and punishment beatings were only adjuncts to the substantive talks in December.”
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