Fixture vs. Appurtenance — What's the Difference?

Something securely fixed in place.

An appurtenance is something subordinate to or belonging to another larger, principal entity, that is, an adjunct, satellite or accessory that generally accompanies something else. The word derives from Latin appertinere, "to appertain".

Something attached as a permanent appendage, apparatus, or appliance

Something associated with another, more important thing; an accessory.

(Law) An item of personal property that is physically attached to a property and becomes part of it, as a machine that is installed.

Appurtenances Equipment, such as clothing, tools, or instruments, used for a specific purpose or task; gear.

One that is invariably present in and long associated with a place

(Law) A right, privilege, or property that is considered incident to the principal property for purposes such as passage of title, conveyance, or inheritance.

The act or process of fixing.

That which appertains; an appendage to something else; an addition.

The condition of being fixed.

(in the plural) Equipment used for some specific task; gear.

(legal) Something that is fixed in place, especially a permanent appliance or other item of personal property that is considered part of a house and is sold with it; compare fitting, furnishing.

(law) A subordinate interest in land which benefits a principal estate, which cannot be detached from or held separately to that estate; an appurtenant interest.

A regular patron of a place or institution; a person constantly present at a certain place.

(grammar) A modifier that is appended or prepended to another word to coin a new word that expresses belonging.

A lighting unit; a luminaire.

The state or quality of being an appurtenance.

A scheduled match.

That which belongs to something else; an adjunct; an appendage; an accessory; something annexed to another thing more worthy; in common parlance and legal acceptation, something belonging to another thing as principal, and which passes as incident to it, as a right of way, or other easement to land; a right of common to pasture, an outhouse, barn, garden, or orchard, to a house or messuage. In a strict legal sense, land can never pass as an appurtenance to land.

A state that can be recreated, used as a baseline for running software tests.

A supplementary component that improves capability

A work-holding or support device used in the manufacturing industry.

(transitive) To furnish with, as, or in a fixture.

To schedule (a match).

That which is fixed or attached to something as a permanent appendage; as, the fixtures of a pump; the fixtures of a farm or of a dwelling, that is, the articles which a tenant may not take away.

State of being fixed; fixedness.

Anything of an accessory character annexed to houses and lands, so as to constitute a part of them. This term is, however, quite frequently used in the peculiar sense of personal chattels annexed to lands and tenements, but removable by the person annexing them, or his personal representatives. In this latter sense, the same things may be fixtures under some circumstances, and not fixtures under others.

A object firmly fixed in place (especially in a household)

A regular patron;

The quality of being fixed in place

The act of putting something in working order again