append meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

append

verb

US /ʌˈpɛnd/ · UK /əˈpɛnd/

Etymology From Latin appendere (“to hang up, suspend on, pay out”), via Old French apendre, appendre, via Middle English appenden; from ad (“on, upon, against”) + pendere (“to suspend, hang”), equivalent to ad- + pend. Compare with Old English appenden, apenden (“to belong”). See also pendant.

To hang or attach to, as by a string, so that the thing is suspended.

a seal appended to a record
An inscription was appended to the column.

To add, as an accessory to the principal thing; to annex.

notes appended to a book chapter

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences To write more data to the end of a pre-existing file, string, or other object.

Derived terms: appendable, appendage, appendant, appendation, appender, appendment, prepend, unappended

append

noun

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences An instance of writing more data to the end of an existing file.

After recursively sorting the two subsets, the situation is (11,28) 35 (45,50,62) and an append of the three pieces gives the final result.1997, Jeffrey H. Kingston, Algorithms and Data Structures, →ISBN:
Logging can be used to back out bad data, be it an overwrite of existing data or an append of new data.2007, Jeff LeSueur, Marketing Automation: Practical Steps to More Effective Direct Marketing, →ISBN:

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When a file is created or expanded due to an append of new data to the file, new blocks are allocated to the file.2016, Sibsankar Haldar, SQLite Database System Design and Implementation:

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