Prefices

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    plural of prefix form-of, nonstandard, plural

    "The names used in the index […] are different from the systematic nomenclature used in the text only insofar as Substitution and Degree-of-Unsaturation Prefices are placed after the name (inverted), and all configurational prefices and symbols […] are omitted."

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"The names used in the index […] are different from the systematic nomenclature used in the text only insofar as Substitution and Degree-of-Unsaturation Prefices are placed after the name (inverted), and all configurational prefices and symbols […] are omitted."

Etymology

By analogy with terms such as appendices and indices.

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