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adjunct
Noun
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An adjunct is something less important that is joined with something else.
For her, beauty was an undoubted adjunct to her ability to move from one opportunity of employment up to another. ref name="gordimer" Gordimer, Nadine. Spring 2011. "The Game Room." American Scholar, Vol. 80 Issue 2, p.96-105 /ref
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An adjunct is a professor who is not in a tenure-track position.
Nationwide, salaries for full-time faculty held up well, but major shifts were underway replacing regular tenure-track faculty with adjuncts or other cost-saving devices (bigger classes, more teaching hours, using technology to reach more people). ref name="jensen" Jensen, Richard. Fall 1995. "The culture wars, 1965-1995: A Historian's map." Journal of Social History. Vol. 29 Issue 1, p17. /ref
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An adjunct is a modifier or supplement to a clause.
In the sentence he arrived last week, last week functions as an adjunct.
adjunct
Adjective
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archaic: attendant upon
Though that my death were adjunct to my act, By heaven, I would do it. (Shakespeare: King John III, Act 3, Line 57)
faculty
Noun
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Faculty are the academic staff at schools, colleges or .
Across all Ontario Colleges, faculty have been on strike for two weeks.
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A faculty is a division of a university.
She transferred from the Faculty of Science to the Faculty of Medicine.