Definition of ADDITIVE

additive

Meanings

Plural: additives

Noun

  • something added to enhance food or gasoline or paint or medicine
  • A substance added to another substance or product to produce specific properties in the combined substance.
  • A word or phrase that adds something, such as also, even, or nor.

Adjective

  • designating or involving an equation whose terms are of the first degree
  • characterized or produced by addition
    • "an additive process"

Adj

  • Pertaining to addition; that can be, or has been, added.
  • That is distributive over addition.
  • Whose operator is identified as addition.
  • 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.

Origin / Etymology

From Late Latin additivus, from the participial stem of Latin addere (“to add”).

Synonyms

linear, temper

Scrabble Score: 13

additive is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
additive is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
additive is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 14

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