Supernumerary means "exceeding the usual number".
Supernumerary may also refer to:
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Supernumerary actor, a performer in a film, television show, or stage production who has no role or purpose other than to appear in the background, more commonly referred to as an "extra"
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Supernumerary body part
Supernumerary body parts are most commonly a congenital disorder involving the growth of an additional part of the body and a deviation from the body plan. Body parts may be easily visible or hidden away, such as internal organs.
Many additional ...
, most commonly a congenital disorder involving the growth of an additional part of the body and a deviation from the body plan
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Supernumerary judge A supernumerary judge or supernumerary magistrate is a judge who has retired from a full-time position on a court, but continues to work part-time. Generally, when a judge becomes supernumerary a vacancy is created, and the appropriate person or bod ...
, a semi-retired judge appointed to hear cases on a part-time basis
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Supernumerary rainbow
A rainbow is a meteorological phenomenon that is caused by reflection, refraction and dispersion of light in water droplets resulting in a spectrum of light appearing in the sky. It takes the form of a multicoloured circular arc. Rainbows ca ...
, extra colored bands sometimes seen inside the arc of a rainbow
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Jewish Supernumerary Police
The Jewish Supernumerary Police (Hebrew: ''Shotrim Musafim''), sometimes referred to as Jewish Auxiliary Police, were a branch of the Guards ('' Notrim'') set up by the British in the British Mandate of Palestine in June 1936.
The British authori ...
, a Jewish militia active in the British Mandate of Palestine
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Small supernumerary marker chromosome (sSMC), an extra, 47th autosomal chromosome
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Supernumerary sex
Third gender is a concept in which individuals are categorized, either by themselves or by society, as neither man nor woman. It is also a social category present in societies that recognize three or more genders. The term ''third'' is usually ...
es (or ''supernumerary genders''), gender categories beyond male and female
* Supernumerary Tooth (or
Hyperdontia), referring to the congenital presence of extra teeth
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Supernumerary town, a town in Russian Empire which is not a center of an administrative subdivision of state
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