adjunct vs remainder

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. 

remainder

noun
  • A part or parts remaining after some has/have been removed. 

  • Excess stock items left unsold and subject to reduction in price. 

  • The amount left over after subtracting the divisor as many times as possible from the dividend without producing a negative result. If n (dividend) and d (divisor) are integers, then n can always be expressed in the form n = dq + r, where q (quotient) and r (remainder) are also integers and 0 ≤ r < d. 

  • An estate in expectancy which only comes in its heir's possession after an estate created by the same instrument has been determined 

  • The number left over after a simple subtraction 

adj
  • Remaining. 

verb
  • To mark or declare items left unsold as subject to reduction in price. 

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