Meaning & use
postfix
A letter or group of letters added to the end of a word to change its meaning or grammatical form; a suffix.
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The postfix '-ness' turns the adjective 'kind' into the noun 'kindness.'
In some programming notations, operators are written as a postfix following their operands.
A note on using this word
In linguistics, postfix is essentially synonymous with suffix; in computing, it also describes a notation where the operator follows its operands.
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