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Word of the Day for Saturday, August 16, 2008supernumerary \soo-puhr-NOO-muh-rair-ee; -NYOO-\, adjective: 1. Exceeding the stated, standard, or prescribed number. The Justice Department contractor, the Biogenics Corporation, of Houston, studied blood samples from thirty-six residents and concluded that eight of the people had a rare aberration it called "supernumerary acentric fragments," or extra pieces of genetic material. Momart is where private collections are put out to pasture, where works that are too big, too precious, too fragile or simply supernumerary to their owners' homes are discreetly tended by expert staff. And yet, important as its role has been in the history of civilization, the bookshelf seldom even gets mentioned in the program; it is treated as a supernumerary, taken for granted, and ignored. Sweetums, the Swiss chef and many others serve principally as supernumeraries in the picture's extravagant production numbers. Supernumerary is from Latin supernumerarius, from super, "over" + numerus, "number." | |||||||||
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