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单词 adjunct
释义
adjunct
(ædʒʌŋkt )
Word forms: adjuncts
1. countable noun
Something that is an adjunct to something larger or more important is connected with it or helps to perform the same task.
Physical therapy is an important adjunct to drug treatments. [+ to]
The Party was certainly not an official adjunct of the police department.
[Also + of]
Synonyms: addition, supplement, accessory, complement  
2. countable noun
In grammar, an adjunct is a word or group of words which indicates the circumstances of an action, event, or situation. An adjunct is usually a prepositional phrase or an adverb group.
Collocations:
useful adjunct
The unforeseen has become a useful adjunct to more formal methodologies.
The Times Literary Supplement (2011)
This is a useful adjunct to my main job as a geography teacher.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
It is a useful adjunct to the cleansing programme.
Turner, Roger Newman The Hayfever Handbook - a summer survival guide (1988)
Radionuclide arthrography should be considered a useful adjunct in the diagnosis of prosthetic loosening in the challenging patient.
Timothy H. French, Nicholas Russell, Anand Pillai 2013, 'The Diagnostic Accuracy of Radionuclide Arthrography for Prosthetic Loosening in Hip and Knee Arthroplasty', BioMed Research International
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