appendix

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He never gives an exact authority for any of his graver charges, and his appendix is a valuable reply to his text.

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  1. noun An appendage.
  2. noun A collection of supplementary material, usually at the end of a book.
  3. noun The vermiform appendix.

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  • This appendix was a notification to the learned men of Europe that the writer of the Practice of Arithmetic had in his press at home thirty-four other works in MS. which they might read with profit, and that of these only two had been printed, to wit the De Malo Medendi Usu and a tract on Simples . —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Jerome Cardan, by W.G. Waters.
  • The appendix is a useless organ yet when inflamed is serious and when not treated promptly can be fatal. —  RNews - TOP STORIES
  • The topic in this appendix is: CRS-Oracle Clusterware Messages ■ See Also: —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • Page 36-37 cover Corpus Christi, a city that has its Wi-Fi network now operated by EarthLink, and which carries no mention of EarthLink's statements about the future of networks in cities it's already operating in, which I find a strange admission, as if this appendix was written months earlier and not revisited. —  Wi-Fi Networking News
  • When i put pressure on my left abs and push down i can feel slight pain in my appendix area on my right side. —  Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
 

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  1. Latin, from appendere, to hang upon; see append.

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  1. from Latin appendix, rarely ampendix, an appendage, appendix, addition, from appendere, hang: see append.
 

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/əˈpɛndɪks/
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