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appendix

[ uh-pen-diks ]

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noun

plural appendices appendixes.

supplementary material at the end of a book, article, document, or other text, usually of an explanatory, statistical, or bibliographic nature.
Synonyms: addition, appurtenance, addendum, supplement, adjunct
an appendage.
Anatomy.
1. a process or projection.
2. the vermiform appendix.
Aeronautics. the short tube at the bottom of a balloon bag, by which the intake and release of buoyant gas is controlled.

appendix

/ əˈpɛndɪks /

noun

a body of separate additional material at the end of a book, magazine, etc, esp one that is documentary or explanatory
any part that is dependent or supplementary in nature or function; appendage
anatomy See vermiform appendix

appendix

/ ə-pĕn′dĭks /

, Plural appendixes ə-pĕn′-dĭ-sēz′

A tubular projection attached to the cecum of the large intestine and located on the lower right side of the abdomen.
Also called vermiform appendix

appendix

A small saclike organ located at the upper end of the large intestine . The appendix has no known function in present-day humans, but it may have played a role in the digestive system in humans of earlier times. The appendix is also called the vermiform appendix because of its wormlike (“vermiform”) shape.

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Spelling Note

Appendices, a plural borrowed directly from Latin, is the usual plural, especially in scholarly writing, when referring to supplementary material at the end of a book. Appendixes is the usual plural in the anatomical meaning.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of appendix¹

First recorded in 1535–45; from Latin: literally, “appendage,” equivalent to append(ere) “to add on” + -ix (equivalent to -ic- noun suffix + -s nominative singular ending); append

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Word History and Origins

Origin of appendix¹

C16: from Latin: an appendage, from appendere to append

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Synonym Study

Appendix, supplement both mean material added at the end of a book. An appendix gives useful additional information, but even without it the rest of the book is complete: In the appendix are forty detailed charts. A supplement, bound in the book or published separately, is given for comparison, as an enhancement, to provide corrections, to present later information, and the like: A yearly supplement is issued.

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Example Sentences

At the end of the book, Patel included an appendix naming 50 current or former U.S. officials he labeled as "members of the Executive Branch deep state."

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Burkle later wrote two articles about the dangers of leaders with such character disorders, an issue that also recurs in an appendix to this memoir.

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“For example, if a body has an appendix and we know the person we think it is doesn’t have an appendix, that will help rule it out,” Ukpo said.

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DOJ has also filed 1,900 pages of supporting evidence in the form of witness statements or testimony and documents as an appendix.

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Later she was in the North Devon District Hospital to have her appendix out and Korambayil was the surgeon.

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What Is The Plural Of Appendix?

Plural word for appendix

The plural form of appendix can be either appendices, pronounced [ uh–pen-duh-seez ], or appendixes, but appendices is more widely used. The plural forms of several other singular nouns that end in -ix or -ex are also formed in this way, such as index/indices, matrix/matrices, and codex/codices.

Irregular plurals that are formed like appendices derive directly from their original pluralization in Latin. However, the standard English plural -es is often also acceptable for these terms, as in indexes and matrixes.

appendiculate appendixes

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