supplement; something which is added
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Additive Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(a.)
Proper to be added; positive; -- opposed to subtractive.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutProper to be added; positive; -- opposed to subtractive.
additive
\ad"di*tive\ (&?;), a. [l. additivus.] (math.) proper to be added; positive; -- opposed to subtractive.
Noun
1. something added to enhance food or gasoline or paint or medicine
(hypernym) addition, add-on, improver
(hyponym) adjuvant
Adjective
1. characterized or produced by addition; "an additive process"
(antonym) subtractive
(similar) accumulative, cumulative
2. designating or involving an equation whose terms are of the first degree
(synonym) linear
(similar) bilinear
(classification) mathematics, math, maths
Additive Definition from Business & Finance Dictionaries & Glossaries
A chemical added to oil, gasoline, or other products to enhance certain characteristics or to give them other desirable properties. additive a substance or compound added in small amounts to a larger volume of another substance to change some characteristic of the latter. In the oil industry, additives are used in lubricating oil, fuel, drilling mud, and cement for cementing casing.
Additive Definition from Social Science Dictionaries & Glossaries
A characteristic of a measurement series
whereby the summed components equal the aggregate. Related
terms: chain-dollar
estimate.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis Additive Definition from Science & Technology Dictionaries & Glossaries
Food additive - a substance or chemical added either intentionally to produce a desired effect or unintentionally through processing, storage or packaging. An additive is any substance that becomes part of a food product when added.
e.g. coloring agents are often added to food to make them more appetizing.
e.g. coloring agents are often added to food to make them more appetizing.
Chemical added to a product to improve its properties.
Additive Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Additive may refer to:
- Additive function, a function that preserves the addition operation
- Additive inverse, an arithmetic concept
- Additive category, a preadditive category with finite biproducts
- Additive rhythm, a larger period of time constructed from smaller ones
- Additive synthesis, an audio synthesis technique
- Additive color, as opposed to subtractive color
- Additivity, in biochemistry, the simple sum of effects due to multiple causes
- Food additive, a substance added to food to improve flavor or appearance
- Feed additive
- Gasoline additive, a substance used to improve the performance of a fuel, lower emissions or clean the engine
- Oil additive, a substance used to improve the performance of a lubricant
- Weakly additive, the quality of preferences in some logistics problems
- Additive Records, a record label
- Paint additive, a chemical added in to paint in very small quantities for a specific property improvement
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Additive Definition from Medicine Dictionaries & Glossaries
noun
chemical substance which is added, especially one which is added to food to improve its appearance or to prevent it going bad; the tin of beans contains a number of additives; asthmatic and allergic reactions to additives are frequently found in workers in food processing factories
chemical substance which is added, especially one which is added to food to improve its appearance or to prevent it going bad; the tin of beans contains a number of additives; asthmatic and allergic reactions to additives are frequently found in workers in food processing factories
