0 not directly connected with or related to something:
These questions are extraneous to the issue being discussed.
extraneous information
1 not directly connected or related to a matter being considered:
We must not be distracted by extraneous issues, she said.
The description of the pottery from this excavation is extraneous to the theme of the book but constitutes a useful record.
Where an item was missed for extraneous reasons, the score for the phoneme was weighted to reflect accuracy out of four.
An obvious difficulty of this procedure is that often those extraneous estimates were prepared with an econometric specification that contradicts your model.
No extraneous familiar objects were present to interfere with the event to be tested.
It should thus be approached 'without reference to arbitrary and extraneous factors such as local government boundaries and divisions between the voluntary and public systems'.
The second evaluation tested whether the automatic system could remove extraneous sentences, that is, sentence reduction.
In 115 signs she inserted extraneous holds between handshape changes and movements.
This more compact expression is a considerable improvement over the conventional notation with the extraneous summation symbols and the clumsy partial derivative notation.
