appurtenance
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Noun (2)appurtenances
- equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc.Synonyms: gearparaphernaliaType of equipmentKinds rig, kit, fishing gear, rigging, stable gear, regalia
- a supplementary component that improves capabilitySynonyms: accessorysupplementadd-onType of component, constituentKinds fitting, fixings, auto accessory, computer accessory
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Ap·pur′te·nance (…), noun
Origin: OF. apurtenaunce, apartenance, F. appartenance, LL. appartenentia, from L. appertinere. See Appertain.
That which belongs to something else; an adjunct; an appendage; an accessory; something annexed to another thing more worthy; in common parlance and legal acceptation, something belonging to another thing as principal, and which passes as incident to it, as a right of way, or other easement to land; a right of common to pasture, an outhouse, barn, garden, or orchard, to a house or messuage. In a strict legal sense, land can never pass as an appurtenance to land. Thomas Edlyne Tomlins Bouvier, John Alexander Mansfield. Burrill
Globes... provided as appurtenances to astronomy.— Francis, Baron Verulam Bacon
The structure of the eye, and of its appurtenances.— Thomas Reid
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54