英语词汇“supernumerary”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	supernumerary
释义	su·per·nu·mer·ary I. \\|süpə(r)\|n(y)üməˌrerē, -ˌreri\ adjective Etymology: Late Latin supernumerarius, from Latin super- + numerus number + -arius -ary 1. : exceeding the usual, stated, or prescribed number < a supernumerary tooth > < extra ribs, as well as other supernumerary internal parts — Science News Letter > specifically : not enumerated among the regular components of a group and especially of a military organization or staff or of the line elements of a military organization < offered the supernumerary position of inspector general — J.S.Roucek > 2. : exceeding what is necessary, required, or desired : superfluous < the redundant subheading and supernumerary asterisk — Punch > 3. : being the more numerous < in any population with an unbalanced sex composition … a larger number of members of the supernumerary sex remains in this group — William & Mary Quarterly > II. noun (plural supernumeraries) 1. : a supernumerary person or thing: as a. : a person employed not for regular service but for use in case of need b. : an individual in excess of the number authorized for a given military or naval unit < carried about two thousand men, including supernumeraries on a training course for sea experience — Stanley Rogers > c. : a person serving no apparent function < reducing them both to the role of irrelevant supernumeraries — J.C. Powys > d. : an inert added member of a chromosome set 2. : an actor employed to play a walk-on (as in a mob scene or spectacle)
随便看	tensible tensibleness tensibly tensile tensile tensilely tensileness tensile strength tensility tensimeter tensiometer tensiometric tensiometry tension tension tensional tension element tensioner tensionless tension man tension pulley tension rod tension wood tension zone tensity

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