Appendix vs Undefined - What's the difference?
appendix | undefined |
Something attached to something else; an attachment or accompaniment.
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Specifically, a text added to the end of a book or an article, containing information that is important to but is not the main idea of the main text.
(anatomy) The vermiform appendix, an inner organ without known use that can become inflamed.
Lacking a definition or value.
(mathematics, computing) That does not have a meaning and is thus not assigned an interpretation.
As a noun appendix
is something attached to something else; an attachment or accompaniment.As an adjective undefined is
lacking a definition or value.appendix
English
(wikipedia appendix)Noun
(en-noun)- idleness is an appendix to nobility; they count it a disgrace to work, and spend all their days in sports, recreations, and pastimes […].
Usage notes
The correct plural of depends on the circumstances. When referring to the text at the end of a book or article, the plural is usually stated as appendices, although often as appendixes. Either is correct in standard usage. In the sense of the organ, appendixes is the only plural. Compare vacuum, which can pluralize to vacua or vacuums depending on the meaning.Derived terms
* appendical * appendicitis * appendectomyundefined
English
Adjective
(wikipedia undefined) (-)- The result of division by zero is undefined .