Adjoint

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. 1. One who is joined or associated with another as a helper; an adjunct.
  • noun. In France, specifically — An assistant of or substitute for the mayor of a commune, or in Paris of an arrondissement. An assistant professor in a college.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. An adjunct; a helper.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. used in several situations with a meaning similar to helping
  • noun. A matrix in which each element is the cofactor of an associated element of another matrix.
  • noun. An assistant mayor of a French commune
  • Word Usage
    "His adjoint was the Colonel Comte de Mazancourt, his aide-de-camp"
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    adjunct  helper