From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Appurtenance \Ap*pur"te*nance\, n. [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.
--Tomlins. --Bouvier. --Burrill.
[1913 Webster]
Globes . . . provided as appurtenances to astronomy.
--Bacon.
[1913 Webster]
The structure of the eye, and of its appurtenances.
--Reid.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
appurtenance
n 1: equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a
particular operation or sport etc. [syn: {gear},
{paraphernalia}, {appurtenance}]
2: a supplementary component that improves capability [syn:
{accessory}, {appurtenance}, {supplement}, {add-on}]
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