1600-1700Latinextraneus ‘foreign, strange’, from extra; ➔ EXTRA-
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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
extraneous military forces
Her report contains too many extraneous details.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
Essentially, the classic experimental design involves controlling all factors extraneous to the hypothesis of interest in order that this can be tested.
Funding will depend on the sale of extraneous plots for other developments, not an easy matter in the current climate.
Great care must be taken to ensure that solutions are clean and free of extraneous matter.
He knows a plethora of extraneous facts about the arctic and the tropics.
It did not want to undermine trust or uncover extraneous information that might damage agents' careers.
Judges already have substantial latitude to limit extraneous arguments that might mislead jurors; they could use it more often.
There is no extraneous information to interfere with the layout.
1not belonging to or directly related to a particular subject or problemSYN irrelevantextraneous to Such details are extraneous to the matter in hand.2coming from outside: extraneous noises