append

Etymology

From Latin appendere (“to hang up, suspend on, pay out”), via Old French apendre, appendre, via Middle English appenden; from ad (“on, upon, against”) + pendere (“to suspend, hang”), equivalent to ad- + pend. Compare with Old English appenden, apenden (“to belong”). See also pendant.

verb

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

noun

1. (computing) An instance of writing more data to the end of an existing file.
   After recursively sorting the two subsets, the situation is (11,28) 35 (45,50,62) and an append of the three pieces gives the final result. 1997, Jeffrey H. Kingston, Algorithms and Data Structures
   Logging can be used to back out bad data, be it an overwrite of existing data or an append of new data. 2007, Jeff LeSueur, Marketing Automation: Practical Steps to More Effective Direct Marketing
   When a file is created or expanded due to an append of new data to the file, new blocks are allocated to the file. 2016, Sibsankar Haldar, SQLite Database System Design and Implementation