postpostscript

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A form of post-postscript — An addendum added after a postscript.

Scrabble 22

Meanings

nounpostpostscript (plural postpostscripts)

plural postpostscripts

  1. alternativeAlternative form of post-postscript.

    Postscript: I have written all these pages to know myself. […] Postpostscript: A date, June 1971. Seven months after Ana’s death I created a job for myself.

    1979, Sean O’Faolain, And Again?, Birch Lane Press, Carol Publishing Group, published 1989, →ISBN, page 99
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    mr. smith: Postscript—that can’t come about except through price inflation— / mr. backman: Postpostscript—price inflation will have no effect because depreciation is determined by what we have already invested in a plant.

    1956, Productivity in Industry: A Round Table Discussion (Studies in Business Economics; 51), [New York, N.Y.]: [s.n.], page 65

    Postscript / → Hot carrier diodes in the crystal set do not work as well as good germanium point contact types (OA90, 1N69, etc), but better than poor ones (e.g. some from the computer boards). […] Postpostscript: / In the May (not April) 1972 issue of QST is reprinted an announcement from March 1920 telling how an ordinary crystal set may be made to oscillate simply by applying bias to the crystal (and the way the diagram looks, it is back biased -⁠- some kind of negative resistance zener effect?).

    1972 June, The Australian EEB, volume 8, number 3, pages 61–62

    Enough for this postpostscript to say that Affair E had ended, painfully, last summer: as sore a business as Aeneas’s jilting Dido, but not, I trust, so fatal.

    1979, John Barth, Letters: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, page 40

    Postscript If J(v̰⁽ⁱ⁾) is nonsingular for all i, it may be shown that the iteration (4.14) is globally convergent from any feasible initial approximation provided that l < p ≤ 2. / Postpostscript Reference 5 will appear in SIAM J. Sci. Stat. Comput.

    1984, G A Watson, “The numerical solution of total lₚ approximation problems”, in David F. Griffiths, editor, Numerical Analysis: Proceedings of the 10th Biennial Conference Held at Dundee, Scotland, June 28 – July 1, 1983 (Lecture Notes in Mathematics; 1066), Berlin; Heidelberg; New York, N.Y.; Tokyo: Springer-Verlag, →ISBN, page 238

    A postscript. Louise Sheffield Brownell was born in 1870 (two years before Susy) and died in 1961 at ninety-one. […] A postpostscript. According to Silvia Saunders, Jesse Benedict Carter (1872–1917) of Princeton was a “close friend of Louise’s in Europe in 1893 and afterwards.[…]”

    1985, Charles Neider, Papa: An Intimate Biography of Mark Twain, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 35
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