Linguistics

In linguistics, a suffix is an affix that follows the morphemes to which it can attach.

Example: establish (verb) + -ment (suffix) —> establishment (noun). (See derivation and also the list of English suffixes.)

Nomenclature

A suffix is a style at the end of a person's name which gives additional identifying information about the person. These may be academic, professional, honorary or social.

In the United States, callsigns for broadcast stations may have a suffix of -FM, -AM, -TV, -LP, or -CA, if the root callsign is the same as another station's. The -HD and -DT suffixes for digital television have been dropped.

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Computer science

A suffix of a string $T = t_1 t_2 \dots t_n$ is a string $P = p_1 p_2 \dots p_m$ such that $t_{n-m+1} \dots t_{n} = p_1 \dots p_{m}$ .

T = BANANA
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P =   NANA

The term "suffix" or "file(name) suffix" is also used to denote part of the name of a computer file which may be used to indicate the type of the file's contents. For this usage see Filename extension.

Suffix

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