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
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
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)
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