Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A substance added in small amounts to something else to improve, strengthen, or otherwise alter it.
- adjective Marked by, produced by, or involving addition.
- adjective Of or being any of certain primary colors of wavelengths that may be mixed with one another to produce other colors.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To be added; of the nature of an addition; helping to increase: as, an additive correction (a correction to be added).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Math.) Proper to be added; positive; -- opposed to
subtractive .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective mathematics Pertaining to
addition ; that can be, or has been,added . - adjective mathematics, of a function, etc.
Distributive overaddition . - adjective algebra Having
addition as anoperator . - adjective chemistry Pertaining to chemical
addition . - adjective genetics Describing
genes (or the interaction etc. of such genes) which govern the same trait and whose effects work together on thephenotype . - noun A
substance added to another substance orproduct for its ability toalter itsproperties .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective characterized or produced by addition
- adjective designating or involving an equation whose terms are of the first degree
- noun something added to enhance food or gasoline or paint or medicine
Etymologies
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The term additive combinatorics is also used; however, the sets A being studied need not be sets of integers, but rather subsets of non-commutative groups, for which the multiplication symbol, not the addition symbol, is traditionally used; they can also be subsets of Probabilistic number theory
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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These are what we call additive colours, which have a different colour wheel all together composed of Red,
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Supporting local merchants that specialize in additive free fish and local poultry such as the Erickson family makes not only a lot of sense but it is an investment in keeping this great tradition alive and well in our city.
Shop! 2006
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Supporting local merchants that specialize in additive free fish and local poultry such as the Erickson family makes not only a lot of sense but it is an investment in keeping this great tradition alive and well in our city.
Seattle Bon Vivant: 2005
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GE.N, are ready to try the opposite approach, building parts for heavy equipment from jet engines to ultrasound machines through a layer-by-layer process they call "additive manufacturing."
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are ready to try the opposite approach, building parts for heavy equipment from jet engines to ultrasound machines through a layer-by-layer process they call "additive manufacturing."
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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I enjoy reading the differences between so-called additive and subtractive systems.
The Color Wheel, Part 2 James Gurney 2010
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If you shine a red light and a green light and a blue light together at something it produces white light as those in stage lighting I would presume would know, that's why it's called additive color.
The Color Wheel, Part 7 James Gurney 2010
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Perhaps if we called it by its other name of "sodium bicarbonate," people would fear this common food additive, which is in fact, a chemical compound.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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Perhaps if we called it by its other name of "sodium bicarbonate," people would fear this common food additive, which is in fact, a chemical compound.
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