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  1. transitive verb To put or attach before or in front of.
  2. transitive verb To settle or arrange in advance.
  3. transitive verb Grammar To add as a prefix.
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  • The problem in the current package is that all the utterly basic things needed to support packaging (like Configure. pl -- prefix or make install or having an easy way to compile out all the debugging symbols) just don't work well enough for me to build a Perl:: Dist-based distribution. —  Planet Perl
  • Barakyah, etc. or adding, La, Sha, Da or Ja, Rhi, as a prefix is not allowed. —  LT Saloon
  • AutoLISP uses the Polish notation als known as the prefix notation, where the operators are placed at the left of their So in this case, your code becomes (/ (distance p2 p3) p4). —  All Discussion Groups: Message List - root
  • Added GPG_NO_REQUIRE_PREFIX to access. conf to control whether the GnuPG 'hQ' prefix is added before base64 decoding and decrypting. —  CipherDyne Security
  • The 'hQ' prefix is a heuristic derived from the file 'magic' database for describing data encrypted with GnuPG, and the fwknop client normally strips this data from outgoing SPA packets (unless the -- Include-gpg-prefix option is used). —  CipherDyne Security
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  1. Middle English prefixen, from Old French prefixer : pre-, before (from Latin prae-; see pre-) + fixer, to place (from Latin fīxus, past participle of fīgere, to fasten; see dhīgw- in Indo-European roots). N., from New Latin praefīxum, from neuter sing. of Latin praefīxus, past participle of praefīgere, to fix in front : prae-, pre- + fīgere, to fasten.

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  1. from Old French prefixer, French préfixer = Spanish prefijar = Portuguese prefixar, from Middle Latin *præfixare, from Latin præfixus, past participle of præfigere (later Italian prefiggere, prefix), set up in front, fix on the end of, prefix, from præ, before, in front, + figere, fix, attach: see fix.
  2. = French préfixe = Spanish prefijo = Portuguese prefixo = Italian prefisso, from New Latin præfixum, a prefix: neuter of Latin præfixus, past participle of præfigere, prefix: see prefix, v.
 

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