Meaning & use

Appendixes

noun·Academic

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Supplementary sections of extra information placed at the end of a book, report, or other document.

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The report's appendixes included raw survey data and interview transcripts.

Please refer to appendixes A and B for the full technical specifications.

A note on using this word

Appendixes is one accepted plural of appendix; appendices is the more common alternative, especially in British English and formal writing.

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2. noun

The plural of appendix in its anatomical sense: small pouch-like organs attached to the large intestine.

Surgeons noted that both patients' appendixes had ruptured before surgery.

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