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

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

This adjunction is close and near according to the love, and approaching to contact with those who are principled in love truly conjugial, 158.

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

They found the mayor and Morellet, asked for the Commune, and provisionally the adjunction of a popular commission.

From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.

This relation of adjunction issues in a peculiar relation between the boundaries of the two events.

From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Whitehead, Alfred North

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