additive

Meaning of additive

noun
  1. A substance added to another substance or product to produce specific properties in the combined substance.
    Oil may be used as an additive in gasoline to improve the lubrication of a small engine.
  2. (grammar) A word or phrase that adds something, such as also, even, or nor.
adjective
  1. Pertaining to addition; that can be, or has been, added.
  2. (of a function, etc.) That is distributive over addition.
    Matrix multiplication is additive, in that M\vec v+M\vec w=M(\vec v+\vec w).
  3. (of a group, semigroup, etc.) Whose operator is identified as addition.
    It is natural to look at a finite cyclic group as an additive group.
  4. Pertaining to chemical addition.
  5. 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.

Information about additive

Hyphenation of additive

ad-di-tive

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
  • additive is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

additive synonyms

Meaning linear:

linear

Translation of additive

Words that rhyme with additive

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