Definition of Appendix

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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 could never understand why anybody would take LSD for recreation. It's like, I think I'm going to take out my appendix. That would be nice this weekend.
Larry Hagman

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

It should be done with the same degree of alacrity and nonchalance that you would display in authorizing a highly intelligent trained bear to remove your appendix.
Daniel S. Greenberg

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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