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Definition: Affixation |
AffixationNoun1. The result of adding an affix to a root word. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Language | The process or result of attaching or adding an affix to a root. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Label affixation is required to certain telecom equipment. (references) | |
According to this law, label affixation is required for medical equipment. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Affixation" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Affixation" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
affixation | 4 |
affidavit affixation | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "affixation"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | ndajshtesim. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | афиксация. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 附 物. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | ragozás (inflection, inflexion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | afiksasi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | affixationay afixação. (various references) аффиксация. (various references) dodavanje slogova rečima. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "affixation": affixations. (additional references) | |
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"Affixation" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: affidation, affilation. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-f-f-i-i-n-o-t-x" | |
-2 letters: fixation. | |
-3 letters: affiant, fixatif. | |
-4 letters: anoxia, taffia, tiffin. | |
-5 letters: affix, axion, faint, fixit, infix, tafia, taxon, toxin. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-f-f-i-i-n-o-t-x" | |
+1 letter: affixations. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 66 66 69 78 61 74 69 6F 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- ..-. ..-. .. -..- .- - .. --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100110 01100110 01101001 01111000 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A f f i x a t i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0066 0066 0069 0078 0061 0074 0069 006F 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35727275906786758180 |
| 1. Definition 2. Quotations: Non-fiction 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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