postfix

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Ironically, lawyers now say that the requirement for the trademark postfix has no legal force, but the asterisk usage is entrenched anyhow.

From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.

The glyph occurs 37 times on this side and, with a prefix and a changed postfix, once on page 24.

From Commentary Upon the Maya-Tzental Perez Codex with a Concluding Note Upon the Linguistic Problem of the Maya Glyphs by Gates, William

That which is affixed; an appendage; esp. one or more letters or syllables added at the end of a word; a suffix; a postfix.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

It is also used as a postfix to denote motion towards the object to which it is joined.

From Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 2 by MacGillivray, John

In the affixes, the superfix and prefix positions may as a general rule be regarded as wholly identical; also the subfix and postfix positions.

From Commentary Upon the Maya-Tzental Perez Codex with a Concluding Note Upon the Linguistic Problem of the Maya Glyphs by Gates, William