👉 The term "appended" in programming typically refers to a variable being assigned a value that is already defined elsewhere. This can happen when you use the assignment operator (=) to assign a new value to an existing variable, or when you use the ternary operator (if-else) to define multiple conditions and assign different values based on those conditions. For example: ```python x = 5 y = 10 # Assigning x to y z = x if x