Definition of adjoints:
(n) :
An assistant to someone who holds a position in the military or civil service.
(n) :
An assistant mayor of a French commune.
(adj) :
(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).
(adj) :
(mathematics, category theory, of a functor) That is related to another functor by an adjunction.
(n) :
(mathematics) The transpose of the cofactor matrix of a given square matrix.
(n) :
(mathematics, linear algebra, of a matrix) Transpose conjugate.