Usually means: Affix attached around a word.
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General (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. circumfix: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. circumfix: Wiktionary
  3. circumfix: Dictionary.com
  4. Circumfix: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. circumfix: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. circumfix: Legal dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (circumfix)

noun:  (grammar) An affix containing both a prefixing and a suffixing element existing as a single morphological unit.
verb:  (grammar) Affix a circumfix to (a word).

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