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  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Appendix  \Ap*pen"dix\,  n. 
  The  vermiform  appendix. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Appendix  \Ap*pen"dix\,  n.;  pl  E.  {Appendixes},  L.  {Appendices}. 
  [L.  appendix,  -dicis,  fr  appendere  See  {Append}.] 
  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. 
 
  Syn:  See  {Supplement}. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  appendix 
  n  1:  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}] 




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