appendix
pronunciation
How to pronounce appendix in British English:
UK [əˈpendɪks]
How to pronounce appendix in American English:
US [əˈpendɪks]
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- Noun:
- supplementary material that is collected and appended at the back of a book
- a vestigial process that extends from the lower end of the cecum and that resembles a small pouch
Word Origin
- appendix
- appendix: see penthouse
- appendix (n.)
- 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.
Example
- 1. You can now enter text in the appendix .
- 2. And mexico itself is more than the bloody appendix of american imaginations .
- 3. A great appendix charts the relative performance of several of the most famous hedge funds over the years .
- 4. In chapter 14 and its appendix we shall consider the answers to this question which have been given hitherto .
- 5. As reproduced as an appendix in mr curren 's book rao 's suspicions concerning tai situ rinpoche are manifest .