Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Something added or to be added, especially a supplement to a book.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A thing to be added; an addition; an appendix to a work.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A thing to be added; an appendix or addition.
- noun (Mech.) the circle which may be described around a circular spur wheel or gear wheel, touching the crests or tips of the teeth.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Something to be
added ; especiallytext added as anappendix orsupplement to adocument . - noun A
postscript . - noun engineering The height by which the tooth of a gear projects beyond (outside for external, or inside for internal) the standard pitch circle or pitch line.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun textual matter that is added onto a publication; usually at the end
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Aaron - your addendum is sound advice, however the summer olympic committee should investigate this new found technique, implement it, and maybe somebody might actually tune in.
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The COS Effect Readers, this addendum is in recognition that some of you (like me) may, whilst purchasing one of the above or similar TPD, wish to augment your wardrobe with simple, less expensive pieces.
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His piece additionally featured a 121-word addendum directly attacking the free-ticket protocol violated by Gerard and Winer:
Leonard Jacobs: Ensnaring Theatre Critics in the Spider-Man Web
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His piece additionally featured a 121-word addendum directly attacking the free-ticket protocol violated by Gerard and Winer:
Leonard Jacobs: Ensnaring Theatre Critics in the Spider-Man Web
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His piece additionally featured a 121-word addendum directly attacking the free-ticket protocol violated by Gerard and Winer:
Leonard Jacobs: Ensnaring Theatre Critics in the Spider-Man Web
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Honest Services Fraud refers to the 28 word addendum to the U.S. penal code added by Congress in 1988.
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The primary motivation behind the addendum was the committee's decision that council is entitled to cost-of-living increases.
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The addendum, which is a discussion of the scales of the maqamat, which has partly Hebrew titles and again extremely short Hebrew descriptions / definitions.
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The last clause in the addendum was a beauty: the company could discharge Swanson for any reason if “at any time in the future, through no fault of Famous Players-Lasky and/or without its connivance and consent, first party shall be charged with adulterous conduct or immoral relations with men other than her husband, and such charges or any of them are published in the public press, the waiver herein contained shall be null and void and of no force and effect.”
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(binary module) to a book (kernel) under the GPL, but could they really argue that the addendum is a separate work if the only form of distribution for the modification is provided as a work-as-whole?
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