Usually means: Attachment of prefixes or suffixes.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. affixation: Merriam-Webster
  2. affixation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. affixation: Collins English Dictionary
  4. affixation: Vocabulary.com
  5. affixation: Wordnik
  6. affixation: Wiktionary
  7. affixation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. affixation: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. affixation: Dictionary.com
  10. Affixation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. affixation: Rhymezone
  12. affixation: FreeDictionary.org
  13. affixation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. affixation: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Affixation: Lexicon of Linguistics

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. affixation: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. affixation: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. affixation: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. affixation: Idioms

(Note: See affix as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (affixation)

noun:  (linguistics) The adding of an affix to a word.

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