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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)
relation
Noun
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A relation is the way two things are towards each other or in comparison with each other.
This building looks too big in relation to the size of the houses on the street.
The children sitting in the boat were moving in relation to their parents who were sitting on the shore because the boat was going away from shore.
There is a relation between eating good food and being healthy.
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A relation is a member of ones' family.
I have an uncle, two aunts and three cousins but no other relations.
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A relation is a statement of equality between two products of generators that are used when showing a group.