Usually means: Morpheme attached to a word base.
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We found 40 dictionaries that define the word affix:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. affix: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. affix: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. affix: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. affix: Collins English Dictionary
  5. affix: Vocabulary.com
  6. Affix, affix: Wordnik
  7. affix: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. affix: Wiktionary
  9. affix: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. affix: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. affix: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. affix: Dictionary.com
  13. affix: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. affix: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Affix: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Affix: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. affix: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. affix: Rhymezone
  19. affix: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. affix: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. affix: MyWord.info
  22. affix: Free Dictionary
  23. affix: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. affix: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. affix: Merriam-Webster.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Affix: Lexicon of Linguistics
  3. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. affix: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. affix: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. affix: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. affix: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. affix: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Affix: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Affix: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See affixable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  That which is affixed; an appendage.
noun:  (linguistic morphology) A bound morpheme added to the word’s stem's end.
noun:  (linguistic morphology, loosely) A bound morpheme added to a word’s stem; a prefix, suffix, etc.
noun:  (mathematics) The complex number a+bi associated with the point in the Gauss plane with coordinates (a,b).
noun:  (decorative art) Any small feature, as a figure, a flower, or the like, added for ornament to a vessel or other utensil, to an architectural feature.
verb:  (transitive) To attach.
verb:  (transitive) To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to.
verb:  (transitive) To fix or fasten figuratively; with on or upon.

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