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A0089700 (ăj′ŭngkt′)n.1. Something attached to another in a dependent or subordinate position. See Synonyms at attachment.2. A person associated with another in a subordinate or auxiliary capacity.3. Grammar A clause or phrase added to a sentence that, while not essential to the sentence's structure, amplifies its meaning, such as for several hours in We waited for several hours.4. Logic A nonessential attribute of a thing.adj.1. Added or connected in a subordinate or auxiliary capacity: an adjunct clause.2. Attached to a faculty or staff in a temporary or auxiliary capacity: an adjunct professor of history.

[From Latin adiūnctus, past participle of adiungere, to join to; see adjoin.]

ad·junc′tion (ə-jŭngk′shən) n.ad·junc′tive adj.

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(əˈdʒʌŋkʃən) n (Grammar) (in phrase-structure grammar) the relationship between a branch of a tree representing a sentence to other branches to its left or right that descend from the same node immediately above

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adjunction - an act of joining or adjoining thingsjunctionjoining, connexion, connection - the act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication); "the joining of hands around the table"; "there was a connection via the internet"

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Attachment or affixing to another. Something attached as a dependent or auxiliary part.Under the Civil Law system which prevails in much of Europe and Latin America, adjunction is the permanent union of a thing belonging to one person to something that belongs to someone else.

A branch agency, for example, is an adjunct of the main department or Administrative Agency.

ADJUNCTION. in civil law. Takes place when the thing belonging to one personis attached or united to that which belongs to another, whether this union iscaused by inclusion, as if one man's diamond be encased in another's ring;by soldering, as if one's guard be soldered on another's sword; by sewing,as by employing the silk of one to make the coat of another; byconstruction; as by building on another's land; by writing, as when onewrites on another's parchment; or by painting, when one paints a picture onanother's canvas.
2. In these cases, as a general rule, the accessory follows theprincipal; hence these things which are attached to the things of anotherbecome the property of the latter. The only exception which the civiliansmade was in the case of a picture, which although an accession, drew toitself the canvas, on account of the importance which was attached to it.Inst. lib. 2, t. 1, Sec. 34; Dig. lib. 41, t. 1, 1. 9, Sec. 2. SeeAccession, and 2 Bl. Comm. 404; Bro. Ab. Propertie; Com. Dig. Pleader, M.28; Bac. Abr. Trespass, E 2. 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 499.

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noun an act of joining or adjoining things

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