additive

Plural: additives

Noun

• A substance added to something to improve it.
• something added to enhance food or gasoline or paint or medicine
• A substance added to another substance or product to produce specific properties in the combined substance.
• A word or phrase that adds something, such as also, even, or nor.

Adjective

• designating or involving an equation whose terms are of the first degree
• characterized or produced by addition
  • "an additive process"

Adj

• Pertaining to addition; that can be, or has been, added.
• That is distributive over addition.
• Whose operator is identified as addition.
• Pertaining to chemical addition.
• Of or pertaining to genes (or the interaction etc. of such genes) which govern the same trait and whose effects work together on the phenotype.

Examples

• A well-placed ’S’ is the most valuable additive in the game.
• It is natural to look at a finite cyclic group as an additive group.
• Matrix multiplication is additive, in that M#92;vecv#43;M#92;vecw#61;M(#92;vecv#43;#92;vecw).
• Oil may be used as an additive in gasoline to improve the lubrication of a small engine.

Synonyms

linear, temper

Antonyms

nonlinear, subtractive

Related Words

additivity

Anagrams of additive