additive
Meaning of additive
noun
- 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.
- (grammar) A word or phrase that adds something, such as also, even, or nor.
- Pertaining to addition; that can be, or has been, added.
- (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).
- (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.
- 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.
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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:
Translation of additive
Words that rhyme with additive
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