Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Something added or to be added, especially a supplement to a book.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A thing to be added; an addition; an appendix to a work.
Wiktionary
- n. Something to be added; especially text added as an appendix or supplement to a document.
- n. A postscript.
- n. 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.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A thing to be added; an appendix or addition.
WordNet 3.0
- n. textual matter that is added onto a publication; usually at the end
Etymologies
- From the gerundive of Latin addere ("to add"). (Wiktionary)
- Latin, neuter gerundive of addere, to add; see add. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
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“His piece additionally featured a 121-word addendum directly attacking the free-ticket protocol violated by Gerard and Winer:”
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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 addendum, which is a discussion of the scales of the maqamat, which has partly Hebrew titles and again extremely short Hebrew descriptions / definitions.”
“The primary motivation behind the addendum was the committee's decision that council is entitled to cost-of-living increases.”
“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.””
“So we have an inversion here, a kind of addendum to an afterword.”
“This "addendum" specifically looks at the gender pay gap for artists.”
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