affix

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To secure to something; attach: affix a label to a package.
2. v. To impute; attribute: affix blame to him.
3. v. To place at the end; append: affix a postscript to a letter.
4. v. Grammar To add as an affix.
5. n. Something that is attached, joined, or added; an appendage or addition.
6. n. Linguistics A word element, such as a prefix or suffix, that can only occur attached to a base, stem, or root.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To fix; fasten, join, or attach; conjoin, add, or append; make an adjunct or part of: followed by to.
2. Synonyms Add, Affix, Annex, etc. (see add), suffix, superadd, tack on, fasten on, join.
3. n. That which is joined, attached, or added; an addition or attachment.
4. n. In philology, a syllable or letter, prefix or suffix, attached to a word or a verbal root or stem, as in good-ness, veri-fy, civil-ize, un-able, un-con-form-able.
5. n. In decorative art, any small feature, as a figure, a flower, or the like, added for ornament to a vessel or other utensil, to an architectural feature, etc.: used especially with reference to ceramics and bronzes. Decoration of this kind is characteristic of the famous Palissy ware, which is adorned with affixes in the shape of serpents, lizards, fishes, and the like; and modern ceramic ware of both fine and ordinary quality is often ornamented with flowers, figures, etc., in relief. The most beautiful examples of the artistic use of affixes are, however, to be sought among Japanese bronzes.
6. n. In mathematics, the complex number x + iy is denoted by a single letter, z; the point P, (x, y), is then called the affix of the value z; the number z is also spoken of as the affix of the point P.

Wiktionary

1. n. That which is affixed; an appendage.
2. n. linguistics A bound morpheme added to a word’s stem; formerly applied only to suffixes (also called postfixes), the term as now used comprises prefixes, suffixes, infixes, circumfixes, and suprafixes.
3. n. mathematics The complex number associated to the point in the Gauss Plane with coordinates .
4. v. To attach.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of
2. v. To fix or fasten in any way; to attach physically.
3. v. To attach, unite, or connect with
4. v. obsolete To fix or fasten figuratively; -- with on or upon.
5. n. That which is affixed; an appendage; esp. one or more letters or syllables added at the end of a word; a suffix; a postfix.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. attach to
2. n. a linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form
3. v. add to the very end
4. v. attach or become attached to a stem word