Usually means: Insertions within words, modifying meaning.
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  1. infixes: Merriam-Webster
  2. infixes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. infixes: Vocabulary.com
  4. infixes: Wiktionary
  5. infixes: Dictionary.com
  6. Infixes: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. infixes: MyWord.info
  8. infixes: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (infix)

verb:  (transitive, archaic) To set; to fasten or fix by piercing or thrusting in.
verb:  (transitive) To instill.
verb:  (transitive, linguistics) To insert a morpheme inside an existing word.
noun:  (linguistics) An affix inserted inside a root, such as -ma- in English edumacation.
noun:  (some authors when describing agglutinative languages, otherwise dated) A prefix that is not at the beginning of a word, such as the con- of reconcile, or a suffix that is not at the end of a word, such as the -al of nationality.
noun:  (Bantu linguistics, dated) A prefix that always occurs in the position immediately before the verb root, and which may in turn be preceded by other prefixes.
noun:  (linguistics, proscribed) A morpheme that always appears between other morphemes in a word, such as -i- and -o- in English (i.e. an interfix).
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