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The number of degrees which, if added to a specified arc, make it 180°; the quantity by which an arc or an angle falls short of 180 degrees, or an arc falls short of a semicircle. Syn. -- Appendix. -- Appendix, Supplement. An appendix is that which

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The number of degrees which, if added to a specified arc, make it 180°; the quantity by which an arc or an angle falls short of 180 degrees, or an arc falls short of a semicircle. Syn. -- Appendix. -- Appendix, Supplement. An appendix is that which is appended to something, but is not essential to its completeness; a supplement is that which supplements, or serves to complete or make perfect, that to which it is added. (more info) 1. That which supplies a deficiency, or meets a want; a store; a supply. Chapman. 2. That which fills up, completes, or makes an addition to, something already organized, arranged, or set apart; specifically, a part added to, or issued as a continuation of, a book or paper, to make good its deficiencies or correct its errors.

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  • APPENDANT
    A inheritance annexed by prescription to a superior inheritance. (more info) 1. Anything attached to another as incidental or subordinate to it.
  • AFFIX
    figere to fasten: cf. OE. affichen, F. afficher, ultimately fr. L. 1. To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrument; to affix one's name to
  • AFFIXION
    Affixture. T. Adams.
  • SUPPLEMENT
    The number of degrees which, if added to a specified arc, make it 180°; the quantity by which an arc or an angle falls short of 180 degrees, or an arc falls short of a semicircle. Syn. -- Appendix. -- Appendix, Supplement. An appendix is that which
  • ADJUNCT
    Conjoined; attending; consequent. Though that my death were adjunct to my act. Shak. Adjunct notes , short notes between those essential to the harmony; auxiliary notes; passing notes.
  • APPENDICAL
    Of or like an appendix.
  • ADDITION
    That part of arithmetic which treats of adding numbers. (more info) 1. The act of adding two or more things together; -- opposed to subtraction or diminution. "This endless addition or addibility of numbers." Locke. 2. Anything added; increase;
  • ADJUNCTIVELY
    In an adjunctive manner.
  • ANNEXATION
    1. The act of annexing; process of attaching, adding, or appending; the act of connecting; union; as, the annexation of Texas to the United States, or of chattels to the freehold. The union of property with a freehold so as to become a fixture.
  • ACQUISITION
    1. The act or process of acquiring. The acquisition or loss of a province. Macaulay. 2. The thing acquired or gained; an acquirement; a gain; as, learning is an acquisition. Syn. -- See Acquirement.
  • ADJUNCTIVE
    Joining; having the quality of joining; forming an adjunct.
  • ADDITIONALLY
    By way of addition.
  • APPENDIX
    1. Something appended or added; an appendage, adjunct, or concomitant. Normandy became an appendix to England. Sir M. Hale. 2. Any literary matter added to a book, but not necessarily essential to its completeness, and thus distinguished
  • ADDITAMENT
    An addition, or a thing added. Fuller. My persuasion that the latter verses of the chapter were an additament of a later age. Coleridge.
  • INCREASE
    The period of increasing light, or luminous phase; the waxing; -- said of the moon. Seeds, hair, nails, hedges, and herbs will grow soonest if set or cut in the increase of the moon. Bacon. Increase twist, the twixt of a rifle groove in which the
  • APPEND
    belong, OF. apendre, F. appendre, fr. L. append, v. i., to hang to, append, v. t., to hang to; ad + pend, v. i., to hang, pend, v. t., to 1. To hang or attach to, as by a string, so that the thing is suspended; as, a seal appended to a record;
  • AUGMENTATION
    A additional charge to a coat of arms, given as a mark of honor. Cussans. (more info) 1. The act or process of augmenting, or making larger, by addition, expansion, or dilation; increase. 2. The state of being augmented; enlargement. 3. The thing
  • ANNEXATIONIST
    One who favors annexation.
  • INCREASEMENT
    Increase. Bacon.
  • APPENDICULATE
    Having small appendages; forming an appendage. Appendiculate leaf, a small appended leaf. Withering.
  • REINCREASE
    To increase again.
  • SURADDITION
    Something added or appended, as to a name. Shak.
  • DISAPPENDENT
    Freed from a former connection or dependence; disconnected.
  • REATTACHMENT
    The act of reattaching; a second attachment.
  • REANNEXATION
    Act of reannexing.

 

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