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Definition of Prefixing
1. prefix [v] - See also: prefix
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prefixing
Literary usage of Prefixing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The University Arithmetic: Embracing the Science of Numbers, and Their by Charles Davies (1853)
"Prefixing a cipher is placing it on the left of a number. ... Hence, Prefixing
ciphers to a decimal fraction diminishes its value ten times for every cipher ..."
2. The University Arithmetic: Embracing the Science of Numbers, and Their by Charles Davies (1852)
"Prefixing a cipher is placing it on the left of a number. ... Hence, Prefixing
ciphers to a decimal fraction diminishes its value ten times for every cipher ..."
3. University Arithmetic: Embracing the Science of Numbers, and General Rules by Charles Davies (1867)
"206« Prefixing a cipher is placing it on the left of a number. ... Prefixing ciphers
to a decimal fraction diminishes its value ten times for every cipher ..."
4. Arithmetic Designed for Academies and Schools: With Answers by Charles Davies (1844)
"Hence, Prefixing ciphers to a decimal fraction diminishes iis value ten limes
... (y by prefixing three ciphers : in which the fraction is diminished ten ..."
5. Arithmetic Designed for Academies and Schools: With Answers by Charles Davies (1844)
"Hence, Prefixing ciphers to a decimal fraction diminishes its value ten times for
... What does ,5 become by prefixing a cipher? By prefixing two ciphers? ..."
6. School Arithmetic: Analytical and Practical by Charles Davies (1863)
"Prefixing a cipher is placing it on the left of a Dumber. ... Prefixing ciphers
to a decimal fraction diminishes it* vaiue ten times for every cipher ..."
7. Elements of English Grammar: With a Postscript, Analysis, and an Appendixby Jonathan Morgan by Jonathan Morgan (1814)
"By prefixing a pronoun or adjective : as, Almighty, any thing, nothing, ...
By prefixing a noun and preposition, or noun preposition and article : as, ..."