adjunct

1. (education) Ellipsis of adjunct professor.Examples: "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."abbreviationalt-ofellipsis

2. (brewing) An unmalted grain or grain product that supplements the main mash ingredient.

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.dated

4. (music) A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key.

5. (grammar) A phrase within a clause or sentence that is grammatically dispensable but not semantically so, modifying the meaning.Examples: "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."Synonyms: circumstant, circumstantial

6. (palaeography) 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).