According to Guinness World Records, the largest coffee shop is the Al Masaa Café, which has 1,050 seats. The coffee shop was inaugurated in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on 13 August 2014.
ADDITIVE
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
Etymology
Adjective
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.
Coordinate terms
• multiplicative
• subtractive
Noun
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.
Anagrams
• 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
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SUFFOCATION
(noun) the condition of being deprived of oxygen (as by having breathing stopped); “asphyxiation is sometimes used as a form of torture”
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