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Appendices

Appendix \Ap*pen"dix\, n.; pl. E. Appendixes, L. Appendices.

  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.

  3. (Anatomy) The vermiform appendix.

    Syn: See Supplement. [1913 Webster] ||

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
appendices

proper Latin plural of appendix.

Wiktionary
appendices

alt. (plural of appendix English) n. (plural of appendix English)

WordNet
appendices

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appendix
  1. n. 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]

  3. [also: appendices (pl)]

Usage examples of "appendices".

Hydrocarbon Oils -- Scotch Shale Oils -- Petroleum -- Vegetable and Animal Oils -- Testing and Adulteration of Oils -- Lubricating Greases -- Lubrication -- Appendices -- Index.

Staff Nurse, if we run through the Kardex together--twenty rooms, as you know--three empty at the moment, but there are two appendices coming in this afternoon under Mr James.

One of the appendices in my report was a map of the wreckage, a computer-generated diagram that showed the major pieces, of which there were many, and where they had landed relative to each other and the airport.

Miss Schwartz was flicking through the pages of colored graphs Ruth had thoughtfully provided as appendices to her paper.

David once said what a surgeon he would have made, and Father Martin made a weak joke about appendices being made of damask.

In the MJ-12 documents there are tantalizing references to appendices about the nature of the aliens, the technology of their ships and so on, but the appendices were not included in the mysterious film.

Harvard man, knowing full well that everything he wrote would be shredded and baled with all the rest of the White House wastepaper, unread, still turned out some two hundred or more weekly reports on the sayings and doings of youth, with footnotes, bibliographies, and appendices and all.

There were originally 22 appendices explaining all the secrets of the Illuminati.

Geneva Bible continued to hold its position in English affections, at least partly because it was so useful for its notes and appendices, a guidebook to the world of the divine.

Mormon history, and the noted Mountain Meadow massacre, see Appendices A and B.

Little wonder he describes himself as humming happily as the machine all summer, eager for the first trial print-out in the fall: I myself was as involved by this time in his quest as if it had been my own, and searched vainly, heart-in-mouth, among his technical appendices and catalogues to see whether they might include the Pattern for Heroes, which surely Polyeidus must have plagiarized from him -- unless, as seemed ever less implausible, Computer itself was some future version of my seer.