prefix

Something placed before another

The chosen prefixes won the vote in part because they start with the only two letters left in the alphabet that are not already used in measurement. The b for “bronto” is already used for bytes and h for “hella” is used for hecto, the prefix for 100.

Something placed before another

in the UK, a number with an 0800 prefix is a toll-free number.

Add the prefix +34 to dial a Spanish number from abroad

Something placed before another

Something placed before another

The string "abra" is both a prefix and a suffix of the string "abracadabra".

To determine beforehand; to set in advance.

But the danger was, that a man can hardly prefix any certaine limits unto his desire[…].

It is important to realize that pregivenness or prefixing is a kind of anteriority that does its work in the present; subjects and meanings in part emerge in enuciative co-constitutive moments.

To put or fix before, or at the beginning of something; to place at the start.

For the classical ranks, he says, were taken from the nomenclature of the family system (indeed, they are kinship terms as well as political ones), and this arrangement was confused and inelegant. But the Taiping terms are all prefixed with 'T’ien' [translating 天 (Tiān)]—the capital is T’ien-ching [translating 天京 (Tiānjīng)], soldiers are T’ien-ping [translating 天兵 (Tiānbīng)], officials are T’ien-kuan [translating 天官]—for the T’ien-wang’s [translating 天王 (Tiānwáng)] authority derives from the T’ien-fu [translating 天父 (Tiānfù)].