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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
appendix
noun
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■ VERB
give
▪ Papers which include information on the vegetation of particular islands are given in an appendix.
▪ The demonstration that this is in fact the shape of these curves is given in the appendix.
▪ A full list of titles is given in the appendix while Table 3.8 consolidates some of the information.
▪ Further details of the analysis are given in the appendix.
▪ Further examples are given in the appendix to this section.
include
▪ The report that documents their findings includes an appendix with 108 anecdotes by Princeton students of racial or religious harassment or discrimination.
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▪ A full list of titles is given in the appendix while Table 3.8 consolidates some of the information.
▪ An appendix scar was lightly etched on his stomach above the Speedo.
▪ Attached in appendix A are the questions which formed the basis of the interview.
▪ Her appendix, womb and a kidney were removed along with in-growing toenails and haemorrhoids.
▪ Of course, much of that would have been done in his lectures, to which the anti-Aristotelian Exercises are an appendix.
▪ The human appendix is one organ continues to be replicated, even though it has lost any survival value it once had.
▪ There is an appendix on standard business terminology and abbreviations used in the book.
▪ You might draft a specimen statement and show it as an appendix.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Appendix

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] ||

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
appendix

1540s, "subjoined addition to a document or book," from Latin appendix "an addition, continuation, something attached," from appendere (see append). Used for "small outgrowth of an internal organ" from 1610s, especially in reference to the vermiform appendix. This sense perhaps from or influenced by French appendix, where the term was in use from 1540s.

Wiktionary
appendix

n. 1 (context obsolete in general sense English) Something attached to something else; an attachment or accompaniment. 2 Specifically, a text added to the end of a book or an article, containing information that is important to but is not the main idea of the main text. 3 (context anatomy English) The vermiform appendix, an inner organ without known use that can become inflamed.

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WordNet
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)]

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Wikipedia
Appendix

Appendix may refer to:

In documents:

  • Addendum, an addition required to be made to a document by its author subsequent to its printing or publication
  • Bibliography, a systematic list of books and other works
  • Index (publishing), a list of words or phrases with pointers to where related material can be found in a document
  • Generally, any text added to the end of a book or an article, containing information that is relevant to the main subject matter.

In anatomy:

  • Appendix (anatomy), a part of the human digestive system
  • Appendix of the epididymis, a detached efferent duct of the epididymis
  • Appendix testis, a vestigial remnant of the Müllerian duct
  • Epiploic appendix, one of several small pouches of fat on the peritoneum along the colon and rectum
    • Appendix of the laryngeal ventricle, a sac that extends from the laryngeal ventricle
  • Mesoappendix, the portion of the mesentery that connects the ileum to the vermiform appendix

In music:

  • Appendix (band), a Finnish punk rock group

In journalism:

  • The Appendix, a quarterly journal of history and culture
Appendix (anatomy)

The appendix (or vermiform appendix; also cecal [or caecal] appendix; vermix; or vermiform process) is a blind-ended tube connected to the cecum, from which it develops embryologically. The cecum is a pouchlike structure of the colon, located at the junction of the small and the large intestines.

The term " vermiform" comes from Latin and means "worm-shaped".

Appendix (band)

Appendix is a Finnish punk rock band. It was founded in 1980 and has released five studio albums.

Their debut album was released in 1983. It was later re-issued by the German label Rock-O-Rama with an English title Money Is Not My Currency.

Olli Lindholm, the lead singer of one of Finland's most selling rock groups Yö, is a former member of Appendix. In the spring 2015 Appendix had a West Coast Tour in United States and they performed at Manic Relapse festivals as the lead performer in Oakland, California.

Usage examples of "appendix".

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I hope to discuss what little can be inferred about the gaps in an appendix to this course.

See FAA report, Civil Aviation Reference Handbook, May 1999, appendix D.

The surgeon may perform an appendectomy only to find that the appendix is normal.

Weston incised the ovaries, looking for the cor 9 See Appendix 1: Delicatessen Pathologists.