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Example sentences for: prefix

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The kinesin superfamily in humans and mice is comprised of at least 45 members, designated with the prefix KIF [ 26 ] . Based on this naming system we have assigned the name KIF27 to this new family member with the suffixes A, B and C to designate the splice variants described above (figure 3B).
My fellow Slate columnist Robert Wright asked me recently: "Isn't it slightly absurd to apply the prefix over to something whose Greek root means under ?" As Wright knows, the hype in overhype probably comes from hypodermic , as in needle, the components of that term deriving from Greek words meaning "under the skin."
A word thus formed by breaking up an existing combining form, prefix, root, or suffix should also have a name.
Prequel takes the word sequel (Latin sequela meaning what follows), breaks it into se- and -quel , and then combines -quel with the prefix pre-.
Prefix almost qualifies; at least it illustrates a prefix.