Affixation

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of affixing, attaching, or appending; affixion.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The adding of an affix to a word.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the act of attaching or affixing something
  • noun. formation of a word by means of an affix
  • noun. the result of adding an affix to a root word
  • Word Usage
    "[...] nonhuman animals may have the capacity to learn surface transformations involved in affixation, but they cannot link them to other aspects of linguistic structure."
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