Definition of "append"

append

/ʌˈpɛnd/

verb
third-person singular simple present appends, present participle appending, simple past and past participle appended
1. (transitive) To hang or attach to, as by a string, so that the thing is suspended
2. (transitive) To add, as an accessory to the principal thing; to annex
3. (computing) To write more data to the end of a pre-existing file, string, or other object.
noun
plural appends
1. (computing) An instance of writing more data to the end of an existing file.
  Quotations
  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