Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Something associated with another, more important thing; an accessory. synonym: attachment.
- noun Equipment, such as clothing, tools, or instruments, used for a specific purpose or task; gear.
- noun Law A right, privilege, or property that is considered incident to the principal property for purposes such as passage of title, conveyance, or inheritance.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act, state, or fact of appertaining.
- noun That which appertains or belongs to something else; something belonging to another thing as principal; an adjunct; an appendage; an accessory: as, “appurtenances of majesty,”
- noun Specifically, in law, a right, privilege, or improvement belonging to a principal property, as a right of pasture in a common attached to an estate, outhouses, gardens, etc., attached to a mansion, and the like.
- To furnish with by way of appurtenance; supply or equip.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
appendage added to something else. - noun in the plural
Equipment used for some specifictask ;gear . - noun The thing to which another
pertains . - noun law Minor
property (such as anouthouse ) that passes with the main property when it issold . - noun grammar A
modifier that isappended orprepended to another word tocoin a new word that expresses belonging.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc.
- noun a supplementary component that improves capability
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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For the purposes of this subsection the term "appurtenance" shall include:
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For the purposes of this subsection the term "appurtenance" shall include:
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For the purposes of this subsection the term "appurtenance" shall include:
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The term "appurtenance" shall not include any item that is temporarily affixed or attached to the exterior of a motor home or travel trailer by the owner of such motor home or travel trailer for the purposes of transporting from one location to another.
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The term "appurtenance" shall not include any item that is temporarily affixed or attached to the exterior of a motor home or travel trailer by the owner of such motor home or travel trailer for the purposes of transporting from one location to another.
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The term "appurtenance" shall not include any item that is temporarily affixed or attached to the exterior of a motor home or travel trailer by the owner of such motor home or travel trailer for the purposes of transporting from one location to another.
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He was an appurtenance, and a very necessary one, to the Yukon country; but the presence of the other two was merely accidental.
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Kwaque he merely accepted, as an appurtenance, as a part of the human landscape, as a chattel of
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But Satan dogged the Tahitian's movements for a full hour before he made up his mind that the man was an appurtenance of the place.
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The level of the awarding command determines the appurtenance worn on the ribbon.
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