Definition of Appendix

Appendix

Something appended or added; an appendage, adjunct, or concomitant.

Any literary matter added to a book, but not necessarily essential to its completeness, and thus distinguished from supplement, which is intended to supply deficiencies and correct inaccuracies.

The vermiform appendix.

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Appendix Quotations

I am not religious. I do not believe that personhood is conferred upon conception. But I also do not believe that a human embryo is the moral equivalent of a hangnail and deserves no more respect than an appendix.
Charles Krauthammer

Idleness is an appendix to nobility.
Robert Burton

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Appendix Translations

appendix in Afrikaans is bylae
appendix in Danish is bilag
appendix in Dutch is bijlage, appendix, aanhangsel
appendix in French is appoint
appendix in German is Anhang {m}
appendix in Italian is completamento, appendice
appendix in Norwegian is vedheng, blindtarm
appendix in Spanish is complemento
appendix in Swedish is blindtarm, bilaga, bilaga

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