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postfix

/ˈpəʊst.fɪks/US/ˈpoʊst.fɪks/

postfix verb: to suffix.

Verb

postfix (third-person singular simple present postfixes, present participle postfixing, simple past and past participle postfixed)

  1. (transitive) To suffix.
    • Verbs with י for the first radical, often drop it in the future, imperative, and infinitive of Kal, to which last they postfix ת (לקח to take, follows this form), and in Niph. and Hiph. they change י into ו.1762, John Parkhurst, An Hebrew and English Lexicon: Without Points
  2. To subject a sample to postfixation

Noun

postfix (plural postfixes)

  1. A suffix.
    • Two, or three at the very most, of the prefixes or postfixes are quite sufficient for one day's lesson.1843, George Moody, The English journal of education, volume 1, page 69
    • An example of a postfix operator is the ++ notation used in the C programming language to increment the value of a variable.2006, Patrick Blackburn · Johan Bos · Kristina Striegnitz, Learn Prolog Now!, §9.4
  2. In the Czech language, a suffix that is placed after the ending.

postfix meaning in Bengali

postfix in Bengali

পরপদ

Forms of postfix

Verb
third-person singular presentpostfixes
present participlepostfixing
past participlepostfixed
pastpostfixed
Noun
pluralpostfixes

Origin of postfix

From post- + fix.

Words formed from postfix

Questions about postfix

What does postfix mean?
Postfix means to suffix.
What is postfix in Bengali?
Postfix in Bengali is পরপদ. See Postfix meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is postfix?
Postfix can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce postfix?
Postfix is pronounced /ˈpəʊst.fɪks/ (UK).
What is the past tense of postfix?
The past tense of postfix is postfixed.

Words near postfix in the dictionary

  1. postfilters
  2. postfiltration
  3. postfinal
  4. postfinalization
  5. postfire
  6. postfix
  7. postfix notation
  8. postfixal
  9. postfixated
  10. postfixation
  11. postfixations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: postfix (page history and authors); postfix (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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