postfixing
/poʊstˈfɪksɪŋ/
noun
- The act of adding a letter, syllable, or group of letters to the end of a word to change its meaning or function (e.g., adding '-ing' to 'walk' to make 'walking').
- The teacher explained that postfixing can turn a noun into an adjective, such as adding '-ful' to 'beauty'.
- In English, postfixing is common when forming past tense verbs, like adding '-ed' to 'talk'.
- Learning about postfixing helps students understand how new words are created.
- In computing, the practice of placing an operator after its operands (also called postfix notation or Reverse Polish Notation).
- Postfixing is used in some calculators to avoid the need for parentheses.
- In postfixing, you write '3 4 +' instead of '3 + 4'.
- The programmer chose postfixing for the expression to simplify the evaluation algorithm.
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verb
- Present participle of postfix; adding a letter, syllable, or group of letters to the end of a word.
- He was postfixing the adjective with '-ness' to form a noun.
- The software automatically postfixes the file extension when you save the document.
- She is postfixing the root word with '-er' to indicate the person who does the action.