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English
Etymology
From appertain + -ment.
Noun
appertainment (countable and uncountable, plural appertainments)
- (obsolete) That which appertains or belongs to a person; an appurtenance; trappings.
2016 [2013], Bernd Klauer, Reiner Manstetten, Thomas Petersen, Johannes Schiller, “Material stocks”, in Kathleen Cross, transl., Sustainability and the Art of Long-Term Thinking, translation of Die Kunst, langfristig zu denken : Wege zur Nachhaltigkeit [The art of thinking long-term : paths to sustainability] (in German), →ISBN, 4.3.1. Material sets and stocks, page 44:The property of appertainment of a set is therefore the property which, by definition, has to be given in every element of the set.