meaning of accessory
1. Accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; additional; connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contributing or contributory; said of persons and things, and, when of persons, usually in a bad sense; as, he was accessory to the riot; accessory sounds in music.
2. That which belongs to something else deemed the principal; something additional and subordinate.
3. Same as Accessary, n.
4. Anything that enters into a work of art without being indispensably necessary, as mere ornamental parts.
5. a supplementary component that improves capability
Related Words
accessory | accessory after the fact | accessory before the fact | accessory cephalic vein | accessory during the fact | accessory fruit | accessory hemiazygos vein | accessory hemiazygous vein | accessory nerve | accessory vertebral vein |
