One handy way to Dodge a difficult question is to earnestly begin talking about something extraneous to it.
During the long, boring lecture, most people agreed that much of the information was extraneous.
The crowd's not entirely silent, but there's not too much extraneous talking.
Johannes Brahms said: "It is not difficult to compose. But it is terribly difficult to let the extraneous notes fall under the table".
The lab technicians said that the stray hair found on the toilet seat was from a previous guest who'd stayed in the hotel room, and was totally extraneous to the investigation.Exactly what I saw that night, I'm not sure, but it was extraneous to this plane of existence, and it still gives me nightmares.All seem to make values depend on extraneous factors.Many people may not want all this extraneous software cluttering up their hard drive.
extraneous " not pertinent; irrelevant: an extraneous remark; extraneous decoration."
Extraneous means 'coming from the outside'.
Some books have so much extraneous data in them they are hard to read. Extraneous means something coming from the outside, such as source material. It can also mean irrelevant as: Why do bicycle instructions have instructions for doll houses? Doll house assembly has nothing to do with bicycles. It also means not a vital part of a discussion, argument, story etc. Example: General Grant was called to Washington after the victory at Vicksburg. On the way he picked some flowers and ate chocolate. He was going to meet with Lincoln to discuss the war. The second sentence has no bearing on why Grant was going to Washington.
No. Sometimes they are both extraneous.
No. Essential means that the thing is very important; an "essence." Meanwhile, extraneous means that the thing is something "extra," and not needed.
Extraneous means extra and unnecessary. Extraneous solutions are values that can arise from the process of solving the equation but do not in fact satisfy the initial equation. These solutions occur most often when not all parts of the process of solving are not completely reversible - for example, if both sides of the equation are squared at some point.
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