additive
(adjective) characterized or produced by addition; “an additive process”
linear, additive
(adjective) designating or involving an equation whose terms are of the first degree
additive
(noun) something added to enhance food or gasoline or paint or medicine
Source: WordNet® 3.1
additive (comparative more additive, superlative most additive)
(mathematics) Pertaining to addition; that can be, or has been, added.
(mathematics, of a function, etc.) That is distributive over addition.
Matrix multiplication is additive, in that .
(group theory, of a group, semigroup, etc.) Whose operator is identified as addition.
(chemistry) Pertaining to chemical addition.
(genetics) 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.
• multiplicative
• subtractive
additive (plural additives)
A substance added to another substance or product to produce specific properties in the combined substance.
(grammar) A word or phrase that adds something, such as also, even, or nor.
• davidite
Source: Wiktionary
Ad"di*tive, a. Etym: [L. additivus.] (Math.)
Definition: Proper to be added; positive; -- opposed to subtractive.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 April 2025
(noun) an obsolete term for the network of viscous material in the cell nucleus on which the chromatin granules were thought to be suspended
According to Guinness World Records, the largest iced coffee is 14,228.1 liters and was created by Caffé Bene (South Korea), in Yangju, South Korea, on 17 July 2014. They poured iced black Americano on the giant cup that measured 3.3 meters tall and 2.62 meters wide.
