footnote

1. (by extension) An event of lesser importance than some larger event to which it is related.Examples: "a mere footnote in history"; "If we are another footnote to Plato, Plato was himself already a footnote to still earlier footnotes, in an endless chain of footnotes to footnotes"; "In that context Scotland's fate is a modest element, a symptom of wider fragmentation of the current global order, a footnote to the fall of empire and the Berlin Wall, important to us and punchdrunk neighbours like France and Italy, a mere curiosity to emerging titans like Brazil."Synonyms: asteriskbroadly