Links which consist of two separate elements that are joined to a root or a stem of a word: Circumfixes contrast with prefixes that are placed at the beginnings of words; and suffixes which are put at the ends; and infixes, when they are inserted in the middle.

Here are just a few examples of circumfixes with the roots that are shown in red in order to distinguish them from the prefixes and the suffixes that are conjoined to them:

• projects
• rejected
• rejecting
• photographed
• photographing
• photographer
• photographic
• recapitulate
• recapitulated
• recapitulation
• suggestion
• suggested
• suggesting
• immortality
• immortal
• premortuary
• disputable
• disputing
• computer
• computable
• retrospective
• circumspection
• perspective
• irresponsible
• respondent
• unrespondent

To create a unit of language that includes both a prefix and a suffix attached to a root or the stem of a word: The circumfixing of the sequences of characters creates many more applications, or differences in vocabulary, that have a variety of applications for writers, speakers, and readers.