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affixation
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun affixation has 3 senses
- affixation(n = noun.cognition) Array - the result of adding an affix to a root word; Array is a kind of morphology, sound structure, syllable structure, word structure
- affixation(n = noun.act) Array - formation of a word by means of an affix; Array is a kind of formation
- affixation(n = noun.act) attachment - the act of attaching or affixing something; Array is a kind of combination, combining, compounding
Derived form verb affix3
has particulars: prefixation, suffixation
Derived form verb affix3
has particulars: graft, grafting
Derived form verb affix2
THESAURUS
affixation
IC analysis, accession, accidence, addition, adhesive, adjunct, adjunction, affix, agglutination, allomorph, annexation, attachment, augmentation, binding, bond, bound morpheme, clasping, conjugation, cutting, declension, derivation, difference of form, enclitic, fastener, fastening, formative, free form, girding, hooking, immediate constituent analysis, increase, infix, infixation, inflection, joining, junction, juxtaposition, knot, lashing, ligation, morph, morpheme, morphemic analysis, morphemics, morphology, morphophonemics, paradigm, prefix, prefixation, proclitic, radical, reinforcement, root, splice, stem, sticking, suffix, suffixation, superaddition, superfetation, superjunction, superposition, supplementation, theme, tieing, uniting, word-formation, zipping
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