adjunction

[uh-juhngk-shuh n]

noun

addition of an adjunct.

Origin of adjunction

First recorded in 1595–1605, adjunction is from the Latin word adjunctiōn- (stem of adjunctiō). See adjunct, -ion

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Historical Examples of adjunction

Their number was soon doubled by the adjunction of new cities.
History of Julius Caesar Vol. 1 of 2
Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1808-1873.
The Alliance also came to demand the adjunction to the council of a certain number of delegates.
History of the Commune of 1871
P. Lissagary
They found the mayor and Morellet, asked for the Commune, and provisionally the adjunction of a popular commission.
History of the Commune of 1871
P. Lissagary
The latter tried to strengthen itself by the adjunction of delegates from the National Guard.
History of the Commune of 1871
P. Lissagary
This relation of adjunction issues in a peculiar relation between the boundaries of the two events.
The Concept of Nature
Alfred North Whitehead

British Dictionary definitions for adjunction

adjunction

noun

(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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