postfix
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
postfix (third-person singular simple present postfixes, present participle postfixing, simple past and past participle postfixed)
- (transitive) To suffix.
- 1762, John Parkhurst, An Hebrew and English Lexicon: Without Points:
- Verbs with י for the first radical, often drop it in the future, imperative, and infinitive of Kal, to which last they postfix ת (לקח to take, follows this form), and in Niph. and Hiph. they change י into ו.
- (biology) To subject a sample to postfixation
Noun[edit]
postfix (plural postfixes)
- (chiefly computing) Suffix.
- 1843, George Moody, The English journal of education[1], volume 1, page 69:
- Two, or three at the very most, of the prefixes or postfixes are quite sufficient for one day's lesson.
- 2006, Patrick Blackburn · Johan Bos · Kristina Striegnitz, Learn Prolog Now!, §9.4
- An example of a postfix operator is the ++ notation used in the C programming language to increment the value of a variable.
Usage notes[edit]
Postfix is often used in programming or computing, while in the modern era suffix is used elsewhere, especially in linguistics.