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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)
space
Noun
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Space is area or room with nothing in it or that can be used.
Make a space between the tables so people can walk there.
We moved to the country to enjoy the open spaces.
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Space is the black place in the sky where stars are.
The sun and the moon are in outer space.
space
Verb
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If you space two or more things, you put them apart, not together.
When you attach the wood, make sure the screws are evenly spaced, about 30 cm apart.
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If you space (out), you stop paying attention or thinking.