Definitions for appendix

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appendix ap·pen·dix

Spelling: [uh-pen-diks]

IPA: /əˈpɛn dɪks/

Appendix is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 20 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 171 anagrams from letters in appendix (adeinppx).

Definitions for appendix

noun

1. supplementary material at the end of a book, article, document, or other text, usually of an explanatory, statistical, or bibliographic nature. Synonyms: addendum, adjunct, appurtenance; addition, supplement.
2. an appendage.
3. Anatomy. a process or projection. vermiform appendix.
4. Aeronautics. the short tube at the bottom of a balloon bag, by which the intake and release of buoyant gas is controlled.

Origin of appendix

1535-45; Latin: appendage, equivalent to append(ere) to append + -ix (equivalent to -ic- noun suffix + -s nominative singular ending)

Examples for appendix

Recipes in the main text are identified by number, those in the appendix by page.

It is added to the appendix of this new edition of her book.

The procedure is now the most common surgery performed in the U.S.—more common than getting your tonsils or appendix removed.

The result of his observations I shall also insert in the appendix.

Whilst we wait in this Olympus of gods, we think of nature as an appendix to the soul.

Did she skip over the ten full pages of source notes in the appendix?

Comes with the funniest footnotes and appendix (no kidding) ever written.

There are some lines too of Lloyd's and Lamb's in this appendix.

The appendix was removed in record time, and the wound cleansed.

That appendix is taken more seriously because it is between the covers of a holy book.