Dictionary

postpend en · VERB

Etymology

Blend of post- + prepend.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To append at the end of a text string.
   • Recall that if asterisks are pre- and postpended they designate semantic information in f-structures. 1991, Kenneth Goodman, The KBMT Project, →ISBN:
   • A hybrid attack is used to find passwords that are a dictionary word with combinations of characters prepended or postpended to it. 2011, Dave Kleiman, The Official CHFI Study Guide (Exam 312-49), →ISBN:
   • In each run a random sequence is generated, prepended and postpended with short primers to separate the initiation and termination tasks from the reconstruction task. 2003, Algorithms in Bioinformatics, →ISBN, page 398:

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Relateds

prepend · postfix · append