Synonyms: attachment, accessory, appurtenance, adjunct, appendage. These nouns denote subordinate elements added to or associated with another entity. An attachment is a distinct unit or part that adds a function to the thing to which it is connected: The food processor has an attachment for kneading dough.
Whitney Baxter is an actress, known for The Cosby Show (1984).
Baxter co-starred with Tyrone Power and Gene Tierney in 1946's The Razor's Edge, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Baxter later recounted that The Razor's Edge contained her only great performance, a hospital scene where the character, Sophie, loses her husband, child and everything else. She said she relived the death of her brother, who had died at age three.