Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Appendix"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Appendix \Ap*pen"dix\, n.
The vermiform appendix.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Appendix \Ap*pen"dix\, n.; pl. E. {Appendixes}, L. {Appendices}.
[L. appendix, -dicis, fr. appendere. See {Append}.]
1. Something appended or added; an appendage, adjunct, or
concomitant.
Normandy became an appendix to England. --Sir M.
Hale.
2. 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.
Syn: See {Supplement}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
appendix
n 1: supplementary material that is collected and appended at the
back of a book
2: a vestigial process that extends from the lower end of the
cecum and that resembles a small pouch [syn: {vermiform
appendix}, {vermiform process}, {cecal appendage}]
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