appurtenance
pronunciation
How to pronounce appurtenance in British English:
UK [əˈpɜ:tɪnəns]
How to pronounce appurtenance in American English:
US [əˈpɜrtɪnəns]
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- Noun:
- a supplementary component that improves capability
Word Origin
- appurtenance (n.)
- 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).
Example
- 1. Hope you enjoy the happiness of christmas and all the appurtenance .
- 2. The appurtenance quality culture , spirit culture , behavior culture , system culture commences .
- 3. Because the flourishing development of the internet , the e-mail has already become people 's important linking up tools , and now enterprise indispensable important appurtenance tool at network age .
- 4. If water hammer occured as the water is full , the steam pipeline , appurtenance , support should be checked . Only when there is no abnormal condition observed , can the normal oparation resumed .