adjunction

American  

[uh-juhngk-shuhn] / əˈdʒʌŋk ʃən /

noun

1. addition of an adjunct.

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adjunction British  

/ əˈdʒʌŋkʃən /

noun

1. (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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Etymology

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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Example Sentences

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adjunction

But what is the purpose of this adjunction?

From Delsarte System of Oratory by Various

This adjunction is close and near according to the love, and approaching to contact with those who are principled in love truly conjugial, 158.

From The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love by Emanuel Swedenborg

Sometimes what appears as inflection turns out on examination to be merely adjunction.

From The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb by Daniel Garrison Brinton

UNION.—Spiritual union of two married partners is the actual adjunction of the soul and mind of the one to the soul and mind of the other, 321.

From The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love by Emanuel Swedenborg

An adjunction of characteristics, moral prepotency of his father, physical likeness to his mother.

From A Zola Dictionary; the Characters of the Rougon-Macquart Novels of Emile Zola; by J. G Patterson

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