postfix

present singular third person postfixes · participle present postfixing · participle past postfixed · past postfixed

1. transitiveTo suffix.

   Verbs with י for the first radical, often drop it in the future, imperative, and infinitive of Kal, to which last they postfix ת (לקח to take, follows this form), and in Niph. and Hiph. they change י into ו.

   1762, John Parkhurst, An Hebrew and English Lexicon: Without Points

2. biologyTo subject a sample to postfixation

plural postfixes

1. computingA suffix.

   Two, or three at the very most, of the prefixes or postfixes are quite sufficient for one day's lesson.

   1843, George Moody, The English journal of education, volume 1, page 69

   1 more example

   An example of a postfix operator is the ++ notation used in the C programming language to increment the value of a variable.

   2006, Patrick Blackburn · Johan Bos · Kristina Striegnitz, Learn Prolog Now!, §9.4

2. human sciencesIn the Czech language, a suffix that is placed after the ending.