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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Su·per·nu·mer·a·ry, n.; pl. Supernumeraries
 1. A person or thing beyond the number stated.
 2. A person or thing beyond what is necessary or usual; especially, a person employed not for regular service, but only to fill the place of another in case of need; specifically, in theaters, a person who is not a regular actor, but is employed to appear in a stage spectacle.