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Postfix vs. Suffix

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Postfixverb

(transitive) To suffix.

Suffixnoun

A morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning.

‘The suffix "-able" changes "sing" into "singable".’;

Postfixverb

(biology) To subject a sample to postfixation

Suffixnoun

(mathematics) A subscript.

Postfixnoun

Suffix.

Suffixnoun

(computing) A final segment of a string of characters.

‘The string "abra" is both a prefix and a suffix of the string "abracadabra".’;

Postfixnoun

A letter, syllable, or word, added to the end of another word; a suffix.

Suffixverb

(transitive) To append (something) to the end of something else.

Postfixverb

To annex; specifically (Gram.), to add or annex, as a letter, syllable, or word, to the end of another or principal word; to suffix.

Suffixnoun

A letter, letters, syllable, or syllables added or appended to the end of a word or a root to modify the meaning; a postfix.

Postfixnoun

an affix that is added at the end of the word

Suffixnoun

A subscript mark, number, or letter. See Subscript, a.

Suffixverb

To add or annex to the end, as a letter or syllable to a word; to append.

Suffixnoun

an affix that is added at the end of the word

Suffixverb

attach a suffix to;

‘suffix words’;

Suffix

In linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word. Common examples are case endings, which indicate the grammatical case of nouns, adjectives, and verb endings, which form the conjugation of verbs.

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