noun
- something subordinate to another, more important thing; adjunct; accessory.
- Law. a right, privilege, or improvement belonging to and passing with a principal property.
- appurtenances, apparatus; instruments.
noun
- a secondary or less significant thing or part
- (plural) accessories or equipment
- property law a minor right, interest, or privilege which passes when the title to the principal property is transferred
c.1300, “right, privilege or possession subsidiary to a principal one,” from Anglo-French apurtenance (12c.), Old French apartenance, present participle of apartenir “be related to,” from Latin appertinere “to pertain to,” from ad- “to” (see ad-) + pertinere “belong to” (see pertain).