addition vs adjunct

addition

noun
  • A title annexed to a person's name to identify him or her more precisely. 

  • The act of adding anything. 

  • The arithmetic operation of adding. 

  • A dot at the right side of a note as an indication that its sound is to be lengthened one half. 

  • Anything that is added. 

  • Something added to a coat of arms, as a mark of honour. 

adjunct

noun
  • A person associated with another, usually in a subordinate position; a colleague. 

  • An unmalted grain or grain product that supplements the main mash ingredient. 

  • A dispensable phrase in a clause or sentence that modifies its meaning. 

  • A constituent which is both the daughter and the sister of an X-bar. 

  • Symploce. 

  • One of a pair of morphisms which relate to each other through a pair of adjoint functors. 

  • A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key. 

  • An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity. 

adj
  • Added to a faculty or staff in a secondary position. 

  • Connected in a subordinate function. 

How often have the words addition and adjunct occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )