accessory🔊

Having a secondary, supplementary or subordinate function by accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; being additional; contributing or being contributory. (refn=Etymonline adj.)

(law) Assisting a crime without actually participating in committing the crime itself; being connected as an incident or subordinate to a (id=primary perpetrator).

Present in a minor amount, and not essential.

Something that belongs to part of another main thing; something additional and subordinate, an attachment.

(fashion) An article that completes one's basic outfit, such as a scarf or gloves. (refn=Etymonline n.)

(law) A person who is not present at a crime, but contributes to it as an assistant or instigator. (refn=OED)

(art) Something in a work of art without being indispensably necessary, for example solely ornamental parts.