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Additive

Additive Meaning & Definition
Additive Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Additive?

[n] something added to enhance food or gasoline or paint or medicine
[adj] characterized or produced by addition; "an additive process"
[adj] (mathematics) directly proportional

Synonyms | Synonyms for Additive: accumulative | addable | addible | bilinear | cumulative | linear | summational | summative

Related Terms | Find terms related to Additive: 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

See Also | addition | adjuvant | artificial additive | food additive | improver

Additive In Webster's Dictionary

\Ad"di*tive\, a. [L. additivus.] (Math.) Proper to be added; positive; -- opposed to {subtractive}.

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