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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

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

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  appurtenance
       n : a supplementary component that improves capability [syn: {accessory},
            {supplement}, {add-on}]

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