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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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