adjunct vs affix

adjunct

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

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

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

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

  • Connected in a subordinate function. 

affix

noun
  • That which is affixed; an appendage. 

  • Any small feature, as a figure, a flower, or the like, added for ornament to a vessel or other utensil, to an architectural feature. 

  • A bound morpheme added to the word’s stem's end. 

  • A bound morpheme added to a word’s stem; a prefix, suffix, etc. 

  • The complex number a+bi associated with the point in the Gauss plane with coordinates (a,b). 

verb
  • To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to. 

  • To attach. 

  • To fix or fasten figuratively; with on or upon. 

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