Assistant vs. Adjoint

Assistantadjective

Having a subordinate or auxiliary position.

Assistantadjective

Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.

Assistantnoun

(obsolete) Someone who is present; a bystander, a witness.

Assistantnoun

A person who assists or helps someone else.

Assistantnoun

(British) Sales assistant.

Assistantnoun

A software tool that provides assistance in some task, a wizard program.

Assistantadjective

Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.

Assistantadjective

Of the second grade in the staff of the army; as, an assistant surgeon.

Assistantnoun

One who, or that which, assists; a helper; an auxiliary; a means of help.

Assistantnoun

An attendant; one who is present.

Assistantnoun

a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose;

Assistantadjective

of or relating to a person who is subordinate to another

Adjointadjective

(mathematics) Used in certain contexts, in each case involving a pair of transformations, one of which is, or is analogous to, conjugation (either inner automorphism or complex conjugation).

Adjointadjective

That is related to another functor by an adjunction.

Adjointadjective

Having a relationship of the nature of an adjoint (adjoint curve); sharing multiple points with.

Adjointnoun

(mathematics) The transpose of the cofactor matrix of a given square matrix.

Adjointnoun

Transpose conjugate.

Adjointnoun

Hermitian conjugate.

Adjointnoun

A functor related to another functor by an adjunction.

Adjointnoun

A curve A such that any point of a given curve C of multiplicity r has multiplicity at least r–1 on A. Sometimes the multiple points of C are required to be ordinary, and if this condition is not satisfied the term sub-adjoint is used.

Adjointnoun

An assistant to someone who holds a position in the military or civil service.

Adjointnoun

An assistant mayor of a French commune.

Adjointnoun

An adjunct; a helper.

Adjoint

In mathematics, the term adjoint applies in several situations.