extraneous
    adj 1: not pertinent to the matter under consideration; "an
           issue extraneous to the debate"; "the price was
           immaterial"; "mentioned several impertinent facts before
           finally coming to the point" [syn: extraneous,
           immaterial, impertinent, orthogonal]
    2: not essential; "the ballet struck me as extraneous and
       somewhat out of keeping with the rest of the play"
    3: not belonging to that in which it is contained; introduced
       from an outside source; "water free of extraneous matter";
       "foreign particles in milk" [syn: extraneous, foreign]
    4: coming from the outside; "extraneous light in the camera
       spoiled the photograph"; "relying upon an extraneous income";
       "disdaining outside pressure groups" [syn: external,
       extraneous, outside]

Extraneous \Ex*tra"ne*ous\, a. [L. extraneus, from extra. See
   Extra-, Strange.]
   Not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing; without or
   beyond a thing; not essential or intrinsic; foreign; as, to
   separate gold from extraneous matter.
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         Nothing is admitted extraneous from the indictment.
                                                  --Landor.
   -- Ex*tra"ne*ous*ly, adv.
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