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/əpˈɛndɪks/ Listen

noun

Appendix n. (pl. E. appendixes, L. appendices)

Something appended or added; an appendage, adjunct, or concomitant. "Normandy became an appendix to England."

Any literary matter added to a book, but not necessarily essential to its completeness, and thus distinguished from supplement, which is intended to supply deficiencies and correct inaccuracies.

(Anatomy) The vermiform appendix.

Synonyms: See Supplement.

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... included in Appendix A: Abbreviations which includes all abbreviations and acronyms used in ...

— The 1997 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... margin thus be considered, but the readings and renderings preferred by the American Committee, which will often be found suggestive and helpful. These, as we know, are now incorporated in the American Standard Edition of the Revised Bible; and the result, I fear, will be that the hitherto familiar Appendix will disappear from the smaller English editions of the Revised Version of the Old and New Testament. It is perhaps inevitable, but it will be a real loss. All I can hope is that in some specified English editions of the Old and New Testament each Appendix will regularly ...

— Addresses on the Revised Version of Holy Scripture • C. J. Ellicott

... is the moment to speak of him. I promised to tell you how he sunk several millions of St. Peter's Patrimony in the frightful financial crisis of which you have just seen the ruins; and, indeed, your visit to the new district of the castle fields would not be complete without this story by way of appendix." ...

— The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete - Lourdes, Rome and Paris • Emile Zola

... appendix to the first canto of "Don Juan," he says, "Being in the humor of criticism, I shall proceed, after having ventured upon the slips of Bacon, to wind up on one or two as trifling in the edition of the 'British Poets,' by the justly celebrated Campbell. ...

— My Recollections of Lord Byron • Teresa Guiccioli

... 1634.—Vide New England Prospect, Prince Society ed. They appear also on Blaskowitz's "Plan of Plimouth," 1774.—Vide Changes in the Harbor of Plymouth, by Prof. Henry Mitchell, Chief of Physical Hydrography, U. S. Coast Survey, Report of 1876, Appendix No. 9. In the collections of the Mass. Historical Society for 1793, Vol. II., in an article entitled A Topographical Description of Duxborough, but without the author's name, the writer speaks of two pleasant islands within the harbor, ...

— Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, Vol. 1 • Samuel de Champlain

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