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noun

  • (grammar) A morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning.

    "The suffix "-able" changes "sing" into "singable"."

  • A subscript.
  • A final segment of a string of characters.

    "The string "abra" is both a prefix and a suffix of the string "abracadabra"."

Synonyms:affix

verb

  • To append (something) to the end of something else.

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