appurtenance Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc.
    gear; paraphernalia.
  2. noun a supplementary component that improves capability
    add-on; supplement; accessory.

WordNet

Ap*pur"te*nance noun
Etymology
OF. apurtenaunce, apartenance, F. appartenance, LL. appartenentia, from L. appertinere. See Appertain.
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913