0 not directly connected with or related to something:
extraneous information
These questions are extraneous to the issue being discussed.
1 not directly connected or related to a matter being considered:
We must not be distracted by extraneous issues, she said.
Moreover, extraneous factors influenced the boundaries which infants established for themselves, making unrealistic a straightforward comparison of age groups.
The contrasting view is that dissociations in oral reading performance across languages are the result of extraneous factors.
For their legitimacy is extraneous to any form of collective witnessing or spectacular stage management.
The recording is slightly marred by some extraneous noise and a cloudy sound-quality on some of the vocal parts.
First, there was no disturbance to the remaining ticks, thereby minimizing any extraneous influence on the tick and parasite survival.
In many distributed networks, a response is identified by some extraneous process "done by the modeller rather than by the model" (sect. 7.4, para. 2).
By fitting the sparse properties of the surface, it is possible to eliminate, in some cases, extraneous wideband sources.
This more compact expression is a considerable improvement over the conventional notation with the extraneous summation symbols and the clumsy partial derivative notation.