postpend
English
Etymology
Blend of post- + prepend
Verb
postpend (third-person singular simple present postpends, present participle postpending, simple past and past participle postpended)
- (computing, transitive) To append at the end of a text string.
- 1991, Kenneth Goodman, The KBMT Project, →ISBN:
- Recall that if asterisks are pre- and postpended they designate semantic information in f-structures.
- 2003, Algorithms in Bioinformatics, →ISBN, page 398:
- In each run a random sequence is generated, prepended and postpended with short primers to separate the initiation and termination tasks from the reconstruction task.
- 2011, Dave Kleiman, The Official CHFI Study Guide (Exam 312-49), →ISBN:
- A hybrid attack is used to find passwords that are a dictionary word with combinations of characters prepended or postpended to it.
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Related terms
- postfix
- append
- prepend