Supernumerary

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Supernumerary means "exceeding the usual number".

Supernumerary may also refer to:

• 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"
• Supernumerary body part, most commonly a congenital disorder involving the growth of an additional part of the body and a deviation from the body plan
• Supernumerary judge, a semi-retired judge appointed to hear cases on a part-time basis
• Supernumerary rainbow, extra colored bands sometimes seen inside the arc of a rainbow
• Jewish Supernumerary Police, a Jewish militia active in the British Mandate of Palestine
• Small supernumerary marker chromosome (sSMC), an extra, 47th autosomal chromosome
• Supernumerary sexes (or supernumerary genders), gender categories beyond male and female