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

Example Sentences

This adjunction may be called spiritual dwelling together; which takes place with married partners who love each other tenderly, however distant their bodies may be from each other.

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

In this place I think the effect would have been greatly enhanced by the adjunction of voices to the orchestra.

From Masters of French Music by Hervey, Arthur

This notion of the group of the original equation, or of the group of the equation as varied by the adjunction of a series of radicals, seems to be the fundamental one in Galois’s theory.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various

It will be at once seen that this arrangement permits of continuing the distribution of electricity to the interior of buildings by the simple adjunction of one or several bobbins.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884 by Various

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 Swedenborg, Emanuel