Used in a Sentence

suffix

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for suffix.

Editorial note

I mean that a suffix DAG would be smaller than a full suffix tree, sorry that that was confusing.

Examples17
Definitions4
Parts of speech2

Quick take

(grammar, linguistic morphology) A morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of suffix gathered in one view.

noun

(grammar, linguistic morphology) A morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning.

verb

(transitive) To append (something) to the end of something else.

noun

(mathematics) A subscript.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for suffix.

noun

(grammar, linguistic morphology) A morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning.

verb

(transitive) To append (something) to the end of something else.

noun

(mathematics) A subscript.

noun

(computing) A final segment of a string of characters.

Example sentences

1

I mean that a suffix DAG would be smaller than a full suffix tree, sorry that that was confusing.

2

In fact, the suffix array is just the leaf nodes of a suffix tree in depth-first order.

3

Any problem where there's a lot of suffix/prefix reusage benefits from a proper trie implementation (or suffix array/tree as alternative) - ex.

4

Third, you could build a suffix tree (O(n) preprocessing), and then use the standard fuzzy string matching algorithm using suffix trees on it.

5

While I found suffix trees hard to understand, this is a great explanation of suffix arrays.

6

I've looked into suffix trees and suffix arrays, by way of investigating how diff works.

7

I am aware that a suffix array is smaller than a suffix DAG.

8

I was watching this lecture last night about tries and suffix arrays.

9

In a standard /64 deployment only the suffix will change so there is still some information leaking if you have a static prefix (obviously, as in static IPv4).

10

The characters aren't duplicated, unlike a suffix tree.

11

Go spend some time on 4chan, and this will become clear--'-fag' is used as a suffix/term-of-art, and basically doesn't even register on the radar anymore as being said with any seriousness.

12

VLC for HLS I assume (and I only stumbled upon the '/hls' suffix for any url to support that by accident/in that ticket, which still doesn't seem to be officially closed).

Quote examples

1

I vote we focus on eliminating the most annoying of all title formats, the "gate" suffix.

2

If you add a "-lang" suffix (the traditional fix for a poorly-named programming language), you just end up with "slang".

3

As for the rest of the article, well, Betteridge's law holds, though with the "as best we know"-suffix implicit to science and science journalism.

4

The "vnc" suffix on the name could be a bit confusing to some because it looks like this project does not use any existing VNC code or libraries using RFB protocol.

Proper noun examples

1

Suffix arrays can take much less space - I've heard 1/4 as much space?

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use suffix in a sentence?

I mean that a suffix DAG would be smaller than a full suffix tree, sorry that that was confusing.

What does suffix mean?

(grammar, linguistic morphology) A morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning.

What part of speech is suffix?

suffix is commonly used as noun, verb.