Definition of accessory

• a. - Accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; additional; connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contributing or contributory; said of persons and things, and, when of persons, usually in a bad sense; as, he was accessory to the riot; accessory sounds in music.
• n. - That which belongs to something else deemed the principal; something additional and subordinate.
• n. - Same as Accessary, n.
• n. - Anything that enters into a work of art without being indispensably necessary, as mere ornamental parts.
• a. - Accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; additional; connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contributing or contributory; said of persons and things, and, when of persons, usually in a bad sense; as, he was accessory to the riot; accessory sounds in music.
• n. - That which belongs to something else deemed the principal; something additional and subordinate.
• n. - Same as Accessary, n.
• n. - Anything that enters into a work of art without being indispensably necessary, as mere ornamental parts.