The definition of append is to make an addition to something by attachment.
(verb)An example of something you can append is a supplementary piece of documentation to your mortgage paperwork.
To append is defined as to sign your name.
(verb)An example of something you can append is a letter.
See append in Webster's New World College Dictionary
transitive verb
Origin: ME appenden < OFr apendre < L appendere < ad-, to + pendere, hang: see spin
See append in American Heritage Dictionary 4
transitive verb ap·pend·ed, ap·pend·ing, ap·pends
Origin:
Origin: Latin appendere, to hang upon
Origin: : ad-, ad-
Origin: + pendere, to hang; see (s)pen- in Indo-European roots
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