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Postfix Moderate

Origin: Latin prefix post-

Postfix has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

an affix that is added at the end of the word

"In linguistics class, we learned that adding "-ly" to an adjective creates a postfix that changes its part of speech."

2

Suffix.

"In programming, you often see a postfix operator where the symbol appears after its operand, like writing `i++` instead of `++i`."

Verb
1

To suffix.

"The developer decided to use a postfix operator to append the new data directly to the end of the string without altering its original structure."

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
affix ending
Rhyming Words
fix unfix adfix defix refix infix affix mixfix hotfix disfix perfix biofix confix libfix subfix prefix bugfix suffix distfix overfix
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