Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An appendage.
- noun A collection of supplementary material, usually at the end of a book.
- noun The vermiform appendix.
- noun Anatomy A supplementary or accessory part of a bodily organ or structure.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To add as an appendix.
- noun Something appended or added; an adjunct, concomitant, appendage, or accessory.
- noun Specifically— An addition appended to a document or book relating to the main work, usually consisting of explanatory or statistical matter adding to its value, but not essential to its completeness, and thus differing from a supplement, which properly is intended to supply deficiencies and correct inaccuracies.
- noun In anatomy, a process, prolongation, or projection. See the phrases following.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Something appended or added; an appendage, adjunct, or concomitant.
- noun Any literary matter added to a book, but not necessarily essential to its completeness, and thus distinguished from
supplement , which is intended to supply deficiencies and correct inaccuracies. - noun (Anatomy) The vermiform appendix.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Something attached to something else; an
attachment oraccompaniment . - noun Specifically, a text added to the end of a book or an article, containing information that is important to but is not the main idea of the main text
- noun anatomy The
vermiform appendix , an inner organ without known use that can become inflamed.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a vestigial process that extends from the lower end of the cecum and that resembles a small pouch
- noun supplementary material that is collected and appended at the back of a book
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Apparently one of the vendor links in the appendix is no longer valid.
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Apparently one of the vendor links in the appendix is no longer valid.
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She had no recollection how the injuries were received which injuries are detailed in appendix B.
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Your child will need to stay in the hospital longer — from five to seven days — than someone whose appendix didn't burst, because the bacteria or stool that was inside his appendix is now in his abdomen.
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The human appendix is a vestigial remnant of the caecum.
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But what you would not learn unless you dug into the appendix is that only 3 of the 4 factors were statistically significant.
Does This Analysis of Test Scores Make Any Sense? A Guest Post - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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Your appendix is like a backup disk for your digestive bacteria.
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Your appendix is like a backup disk for your digestive bacteria.
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Appendicitis, requiring removal of appendix, is the way to continue the party.
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But what you would not learn unless you dug into the appendix is that only 3 of the 4 factors were statistically significant.
Does This Analysis of Test Scores Make Any Sense? A Guest Post - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
tbtabby commented on the word appendix
I have a book about how to perform an appendectomy, but someone tore out the last page.
April 9, 2018