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

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

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

If a couple or more articles be claimed, an infix is inserted between the noun root and the possessive affix, thus: Mirribuladya, dogs both mine; mirridyimmadya, dogs several mine.

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

I have a friend who loves me as his life, and in whose breast I should infix a mortal sting if I ungratefully left him.

From Mathilda by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft