Adjunct

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·adj Conjoined; attending; consequent.

II. Adjunct ·noun Something joined or added to another thing, but not essentially a part of it.

III. Adjunct ·noun A person joined to another in some duty or service; a colleague; an Associate.

IV. Adjunct ·noun A quality or property of the body or the mind, whether natural or acquired; as, color, in the body, judgment in the mind.

V. Adjunct ·noun A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key. [R.] ·see Attendant keys, under Attendant, a.

VI. Adjunct ·noun A word or words added to quality or amplify the force of other words; as, the History of the American Revolution, where the words in italics are the adjunct or adjuncts of "History.".