postpend

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verb

To append at the end of a text string.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

verbpostpend (third-person singular simple present postpends, present participle postpending, simple past and past participle postpended)

present singular third person postpends · participle present postpending · participle past postpended · past postpended

  1. 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, →ISBN
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    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 398

    A 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

Origin

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Chicago

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