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Definition of Additive

1. Noun. Something added to enhance food or gasoline or paint or medicine.

2. Adjective. Designating or involving an equation whose terms are of the first degree.

3. Adjective. Characterized or produced by addition. "An additive process"

Definition of Additive

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

Definition of Additive

1. Adjective. (mathematics) Pertaining to addition; that can be, or has been, added. ¹

2. Adjective. (mathematics of a function, etc.) Distributive over addition. ¹

3. Adjective. (algebra) Having addition as an operator. ¹

4. Adjective. (chemistry) Pertaining to chemical addition. ¹

5. Adjective. (genetics) Describing genes (or the interaction etc. of such genes) which govern the same trait and whose effects work together on the phenotype. ¹

6. Noun. A substance added to another substance or product for its ability to alter its properties. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Additive

1. a substance added to another to impart desirable qualities [n -S]

Medical Definition of Additive

1. 1. Characterised by addition. 2. A substance, as a flavouring agent, preservative or vitamin, added to another substance to improve its appearance, increase its nutritional value, etc. (18 Nov 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Additive

addition-deletion mutation addition compound addition mutation addition polymer addition polymerisation addition polymerization addition reaction additional additionalities additionality

additionally additionals additionary additions addititious additive (current term) additive effect additive function additive group additive identity

additive inverse additive model additive operation additive operations additively additiveness additives additivities additivity additory

Literary usage of Additive

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Pelicotetics, Or, The Science of Quantity: Or, The Science of Quantity. An by Archibald Sandeman (1868)
"The process of the last art. is called the NOTATIONAL additive PROCESS. ... 50 the sums of all other additions arc found by the notational additive process. ..."

2. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1915)
"But in several instances we have succeeded in obtaining the true additive derivative. This additive compound with decane differs, however, from all other ..."

3. The Cambridge Colloquium 1916 by Griffith Conrad Evans, Oswald Veblen (1918)
"An additive functional of a curve, y[C], is said to be a functional of ... We notice at once the relation of the theory of additive functionals to that of ..."

4. Code of Federal Regulations: Food and Drugs by Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Staff (2005)
"(b) If between the time a sample of colon additive accompanying a ... penson to whom it is issued, any such colon additive becomes changed in composition, ..."

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