Meanings
present singular third person postpends · participle present postpending · participle past postpended · past postpended
- transitivecomputingTo append at the end of a text string.
Recall that if asterisks are pre- and postpended they designate semantic information in f-structures.
1991, Kenneth Goodman, The KBMT Project, →ISBN2 more examples
In each run a random sequence is generated, prepended and postpended with short primers to separate the initiation and termination tasks from the reconstruction task.
2003, Algorithms in Bioinformatics, →ISBN, page 398A hybrid attack is used to find passwords that are a dictionary word with combinations of characters prepended or postpended to it.
2011, Dave Kleiman, The Official CHFI Study Guide (Exam 312-49), →ISBN
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postpend. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postpend
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