append

  1. Verb.  (transitive) To hang or attach to, as by a string, so that the thing is suspended; as, a seal appended to a record; the inscription was appended to the column.
  2. Verb.  (transitive) To add, as an accessory to the principal thing; to annex; as, notes appended to this chapter.
  3. Verb.  (computing) To write more data to the end of a pre-existing file.
  4. Noun.  (computing) An instance of writing more data to the end of an existing file.

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