Adjunct — the word worth 1,000 explanations
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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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