appurtenance

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}]
    

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.
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         Globes . . . provided as appurtenances to astronomy.
                                                  --Bacon.
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         The structure of the eye, and of its appurtenances.
                                                  --Reid.
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109 Moby Thesaurus words for "appurtenance":
      accession, accessory, accident, accidental, accommodation,
      accompaniment, addenda, addendum, additament, addition, additive,
      additory, additum, adjunct, adjuvant, advantage, amenity, annex,
      annexation, appanage, appendage, appendant, appendix, appliance,
      appointment, appurtenant, aspect, attachment, augment,
      augmentation, authority, auxiliary, birthright, circumstance,
      claim, coda, collateral, complement, component, concomitant,
      conjugal right, constituent, contents, contingency, contingent,
      continuation, convenience, corollary, demand, detail, divine right,
      droit, due, element, equipment, extension, extra, extrapolation,
      facility, factor, faculty, feature, fixings, fixture, furnishings,
      furniture, happenstance, inalienable right, incidental, increase,
      increment, inessential, ingredient, integrant, interest, item,
      makings, mere chance, natural right, nonessential, not-self,
      offshoot, other, part, part and parcel, pendant, power,
      prerogative, prescription, presumptive right, pretense, pretension,
      proper claim, property right, reinforcement, right, secondary,
      side effect, side issue, specialty, subsidiary, superaddition,
      supplement, tailpiece, title, undergirding, unessential,
      vested interest, vested right