APPURTENANCE

accessory, appurtenance, supplement, add-on

(noun) a supplementary component that improves capability

gear, paraphernalia, appurtenance

(noun) equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc.

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

appurtenance (plural appurtenances)

An appendage to something else; an addition.

(in the plural) Equipment used for some specific task; gear.

The thing to which another pertains.

(legal) Minor property, such as an outhouse, that passes with the main property when it is sold.

(grammar) A modifier that is appended or prepended to another word to coin a new word that expresses belonging.

Synonyms

• contenement

Source: Wiktionary

Ap*pur"te*nance, n. Etym: [OF. apurtenaunce, apartenance, F. appartenance, LL. appartenentia, from L. appertinere. See Appertain.]

Definition: 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. Globes . . . provided as appurtenances to astronomy. Bacon. The structure of the eye, and of its appurtenances. Reid.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition