infix

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But CPL uses infix notation; I’d have to get all the operator precedence right to generate Lisp code with the parens in the right place.

From Scientific American • Aug. 23, 2011

It is more than to infuse, it is to infix it in such a manner as that it never may wear out.

From Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies by Sherbo, Arthur

An infix, muga, between the stem of the verb and the termination, gives a negative meaning, as, Ngubumugamangalu, we, dual exclusive, did not beat.

From The Wiradyuri and Other Languages of New South Wales by Mathews, R. H. (Robert Hamilton)

"Cornua obnixi infigunt," fix their horns, not on, but in; infix their horns; stick their horns into each other; stick each other with their horns: q.d.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 109, November 29, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

Inset, in′set, n. something set in, an insertion, esp. a leaf or leaves inserted in other leaves already folded.—v.t. to set in, to infix or implant.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various