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Dictionary Results For "additive" [?]/[OPML]

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English

Etymology

Latin additivus

Adjective

Proper to be added; positive; -- opposed to subtractive.

Noun

A substance added to another substance or product for its ability to alter the results.
:Example: Oil may be used as an additive to gasoline to improve the lubrication of a small engine

Derived terms

Translations

Finnish: lisäaine
French: additif

German: Zusatzstoff , Zusatz , Additiv
Swedish: tillsats

ar:additive de:additive fr:additive hu:additive pl:additive ru:additive ta:additive vi:additive tr:additive

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Additive \Ad"di*tive\, a. [L. additivus.] (Math.)
Proper to be added; positive; -- opposed to subtractive.
[1913 Webster]

WordNet additive
adj 1: characterized or produced by addition; "an additive process"
[ant: subtractive]
2: designating or involving an equation whose terms are of the
first degree [syn: linear] [ant: nonlinear]
n : something added to enhance food or gasoline or paint or
medicine

Moby Dictionary
accession , accessory , accompaniment , accumulative , addenda ,
addendum , additament , addition , additional , additory , additum ,
adjunct , adjuvant , annex , annexation , appanage , appendage ,
appendant , appurtenance , appurtenant , attachment , augment ,
augmentation , chain , coda , complement , component , concomitant ,
constituent , continuation , corollary , cumulative , elemental ,
extension , extrapolation , fixture , increase , increment , offshoot ,
pendant , reinforcement , side effect , side issue , summational ,
summative , supplement , tailpiece , undergirding

FOLDOC additive

A function f : X -> Y is additive if

for all Z <= X
f (lub Z) = lub f z : z in Z

(f "preserves lubs"). All additive functions defined over
cpos are continuous.

("<=" is written in LaTeX as \subseteq, "lub" as \sqcup ).

(1995-02-03)