Adjunct — the word worth 1,000 explanations

I was looking up the word "adjunct" in the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary the other day -- for non-academic meanings -- and found this:

1ad·junct

: something joined or added to another thing but not essentially a part of it

Seems to fit the academic sphere as well, eh?

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