adjunct
/ˈæd͡ʒ.ʌŋkt/ noun C1- An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity.
- A person associated with another, usually in a subordinate position; a colleague.
- An unmalted grain or grain product that supplements the main mash ingredient.
- A quality or property of the body or mind, whether natural or acquired, such as colour in the body or judgement in the mind.
- A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key.
- A phrase within a clause or sentence that is grammatically dispensable but not semantically so, modifying the meaning.
- 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).
- A constituent which is both the daughter and the sister of an X-bar.
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