adjunction

[ uh-juhngk-shuh n ]

/ əˈdʒʌŋk ʃən /

noun

addition of an adjunct.

Words nearby adjunction

adjudication, adjudicator, adjugate, adjunct, adjunct professor, adjunction, adjunctive, adjuration, adjure, adjust, adjustability

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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Examples from the Web for adjunction

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
In this place I think the effect would have been greatly enhanced by the adjunction of voices to the orchestra.
Masters of French Music|Arthur Hervey
This relation of adjunction issues in a peculiar relation between the boundaries of the two events.
The Concept of Nature|Alfred North Whitehead
An adjunction of characteristics, moral prepotency of his father, physical likeness to his mother.
A Zola Dictionary|J. G. Patterson

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

British Dictionary definitions for adjunction

adjunction

/ (əˈdʒʌŋkʃən) /

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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