Dépendance, ce qui appartient ŕ une chose, ce qui dépend d'une chose.
ETYM Old Fren. apurtenaunce, apartenance, French appartenance, Late Lat. appartenentia, from Latin appertinere. Related to 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 principle.
Machinery, appliances, structures and other parts of the main structure necessary to allow it to operate as intended, but not considered part of the main structure.
A subordinate or adjunct part of.
Belonging; appendage; subsidiary right; pl. apparatus; paraphernalia.
A building that is subordinate to and separate from a main building.