affix

  1. Noun.  That which is affixed; an appendage.
  2. Noun.  (linguistic morphology) 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. Noun.  (mathematics) The complex number a+bi associated to the point in the Gauss Plane with coordinates (a,b).
  4. Verb.  To attach.

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