supernumerary

A person who works in a group, association, or public office without forming part of the regular staff (the numerary).

• The judge was a supernumerary, helping the regular judges whenever there was a surplus amount of work.

An extra or walk-on, often non-speaking, in a film or play; a spear carrier.

• [A] minor actor or supernumerary often has a better opportunity to watch great actors than the great actors themselves.
• Though little is known about Noble Luke Usher before his first recorded performance in Washington, D.C., in 1800, it is certain that he made the rounds of the eastern theatres as a supernumerary before as well as after that year.

Something which is beyond the prescribed or standard amount or number.

• They have a supernumerary hair whorl on their head, since they have three hair whorls.

An animal which has not formed a pair bond and is therefore single.

• The best evidence so far that social supernumeraries are physically capable of bettering their lot concerns not rodents but birds.
• There are differences in the composition of the social group [of certain birds] such as whether one or more sex provides help, and the stability of the associations between supernumeraries and the dominant breeders.

A married man or woman who is a secular member of Opus Dei, a Roman Catholic religious institution.

• “Supernumeraries”, the bulk of Opus Dei members, can marry and live in their own homes, with slightly fewer spiritual obligations.

Greater in number than.not-comparable

• This method applies to the observation of angles, usually obtained by repetitions; and instead of equating directions, as in the first method, its object is to furnish the most probable values for the several observed angles from a supernum

Beyond the prescribed or standard amount or number; excess, extra.not-comparable

• I believe a hive, or swarm, has but one queen, at least I have never found more than one in a swarm, or in an old hive in the winter; and probably this is what constitutes a hive; for when there are two queens, it is likely that a division
• [T]he same agreeable and mild flavour can be imparted, as far as human experience has yet gone, by rennet, of which the basis is the coagulated milk in the stomachs of calves and lambs. The number of stomachs prepared must of course depend

Beyond the prescribed or standard amount or number; excess, extra.; Of an organ or structure: additional to what is normally present.not-comparablespecifically

• a supernumerary nipple; a supernumerary tooth

Beyond what is necessary; redundant.not-comparable

• Resolved, that the Curators be authorized to exchange with other societies or individuals, such duplicate or supernumerary specimens of coins, medals, minerals and other articles as they may deem unnecessary to be retained in the Cabinet of