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adjunct

/aj-uhngkt/US // ˈædʒ ʌŋkt //UK // (ˈædʒʌŋkt) //

附属品,附属机构,兼职,兼任

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : something added to another thing but not essential to it.
    • : a person associated with lesser status, rank, authority, etc., in some duty or service; assistant.
    • : a person working at an institution, as a college or university, without having full or permanent status: My lawyer works two nights a week as an adjunct, teaching business law at the college.
    • : Grammar. a modifying form, word, or phrase depending on some other form, word, or phrase, especially an element of clause structure with adverbial function.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : joined or associated, especially in an auxiliary or subordinate relationship.
    • : attached or belonging without full or permanent status: an adjunct surgeon on the hospital staff.

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Examples

  • Sharon Whitehurst-Payne, a former classroom teacher and adjunct faculty member at San Diego State, was appointed to the District E seat in 2016, after it was vacated by a disgraced board member.

  • An adjunct professor at Stanford University, he’s also been a novelist, TV host of PBS’s The Brain, and science advisor for the HBO series Westworld.

  • Lyndsay Levingston Christian is a multimedia talent, host and adjunct professor based in Houston, Texas.

  • Robert Bazell is an adjunct professor of molecular, cellular, and developmental biology at Yale.

  • She said the campuses all limit their tenured faculty so that they can retain flexibility to hire adjunct professors – and that flexibility could be utilized now to implement the requirement.

  • She appeared at his side, impish smile in place, dutiful, fragrantly rather than ferociously sexy, and—frustratingly—an adjunct.

  • At first Wales and Sanger conceived of Wikipedia merely as an adjunct to Nupedia, sort of like a feeder product or farm team.

  • Bouts of landays may be a formal part of a family gathering or may emerge more spontaneously as an adjunct to collective labor.

  • “They got letters,” says Simo Muir, adjunct professor of Jewish Studies at Helsinki University.

  • The students I teach as an adjunct are pointed toward midlevel careers.

  • The arm in these childish drawings early develops the interesting adjunct of a hand.

  • As an adjunct of the policy of the deterrent workhouse for the able-bodied, we have to note the coming-in of compulsory detection.

  • "We must have a real door," said Shorty, looking critically at the strip of canvas that did duty for that important adjunct.

  • It will prove itself a most valuable adjunct to the excellent course of instruction given in our public schools.

  • Clarté, in fact, forms an adjunct of the Grand Orient and owns a lodge under its jurisdiction in Paris.