English-French translations for supernumerary

• en surnombre
• surnuméraire
  De même, nous voulons exclure du financement de la recherche celle qui emploie les embryons humains surnuméraires et les cellules souches d'embryons surnuméraires. We also want to see a ban on financing research using supernumerary human embryos and the stem cells of supernumerary embryos.
  Vous récompensez la production d’embryons surnuméraires, ce qui, pour d’aucuns, revient à inciter la production de stocks. You are rewarding the production of supernumerary embryos, which one might term a stock incentive.
  Elle propose que seuls les embryons surnuméraires ayant été créés avant le 27 juin 2002 puissent être utilisés. It proposes that only those supernumerary embryos that were created before 27 June 2002 may be used.
• en trop
• figurant
• suppléant

Definition of supernumerary

• A person who work#Verb|works in a group#Noun|group, association, or public office without forming part of the regular#Adjective|regular staff#Noun|staff .
• An extra#Noun|extra or walk-on, often nonspeaking|non-speaking, in a film#Noun|film or play#Noun|play; a spear carrier
• Something which is beyond the prescribed#Adjective|prescribed or standard#Adjective|standard amount#Noun|amount or number#Noun|number
• An animal which has not form#Verb|formed a pair bond and is therefore single#Adjective|single
• A married man or woman who is a secular member of Opus Dei, a Roman Catholic religious institution
• Greater in number#Noun|number than
• Beyond the prescribed#Adjective|prescribed or standard#Adjective|standard amount#Noun|amount or number; excess#Adjective|excess, extra#Adjective|extra
• Beyond what is necessary; redundant

Examples

• The judge was a supernumerary, helping the regular judges whenever there was a surplus amount of work
• a supernumerary nipple; a supernumerary tooth

Related words

• supernatural
• supernova
• supernaturalness
• supernal
• supernatant
• supernaturalism
• supernode
• supernaturalist
• supernova remnant