Additive

Definitions: Additive

Additive

Adjective

1. Characterized or produced by addition; "an additive process".

2. (mathematics) directly proportional.

Noun

1. Something added to enhance food or gasoline or paint or medicine.

Date "additive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references)

Etymology: Additive \Ad"di*tive\, adjective. [Latin expression additivus.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definitions: Additive

Domain	Definitions
Computing	Additive A function f : X -> Y is additive if for all Z <= X f (lub Z) = lub f z : z in Z (f "preserves lubs"). All additive functions defined over cpos are continuous. ("<=" is written in LaTeX as \subseteq, "lub" as \sqcup ). (1995-02-03). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Aerospace	Any material or substance added to something else. Specifically, a substance added to a propellant to achieve some purpose, such as a more even rate of combustion, or a substance added to fuels or lubricants to improve them or give them some desired quality, such as tetraethyl lead added to a fuel as an antidetonation agent, or graphite, talc, or other substances added to certain oils and greases to improve lubrication qualities. (references)
Building & Civil Engineering	An additive is a material added to the concrete, generally in very small quantities, to improve some desirable properties. Source: European Union. (references)
Chemical Industry	A material added to a base material in order to achieve a specific result. Source: European Union. (references)
	Any substance incorporated in wood-base fibre and particle panel material or in an adhesive during manufacture, so as to impart or improve certain properties. Source: European Union. (references)
Chemistry	Any of various additive substances or liquid preparations introduced into a substance or applied to a surface to contribute a desired quality. Source: European Union. (references)
	A chemical added to a fluid to impart new properties or to enhance those which already exist. Source: European Union. (references)
Mining	A correction applied to times of seismic reflections measured from an arbitrary time origin. The additive is normally applied for the purpose of translating the time origin to correspond to the datum elevation chosenfor computation, and it is algebraic in sign. (references)
Public Administration	In concrete a substance other than aggregate, cement or water, added in small quantities to the mix to alter its properties or those of the hard cement. Admixtures include accelerators, air-entraining agents, plasticizers and retarders. Source: European Union. (references)
Statistics	A situation in which the best estimate of a dependent variable is obtained by simply adding together the appropriately computed effects of each of the independent variables. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Additive

Synonym: linear (adj). (additional references)

Synonym by domain: extender (chemical industry, industry).

Antonyms: nonlinear (adj), subtractive (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Additive

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Addition	Adjective: added; Verb: additional; supplemental, supplementary; suppletory, subjunctive; adjectitious, adscititious, ascititious; additive, extra, accessory.
Cooperation	Adjective: cooperating; Verb: in cooperation; Noun: in league; (party); coadjuvant, coadjutant; dyed in the wool; cooperative; additive; participative; coactive, synergetic, synergistic.
Preservation	Prophylaxis; preserver, preservative, additive; antibiotics, antifungals, biocide; hygiastics, hygiantics; cover, drugget; cordon sanitaire; canning; ensilage; tinned goods, canned goods.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Additive

English words defined with "additive": Addititious, adjuvant, artificial additive ♦ food additive ♦ monosodium glutamate, MSG. (references)

Specialty definitions using "additive": acid catalist lacquer, acid catalysed lacquer, acid catalyzed lacquer, additive complementary colors, additive complementary colours, Additive effect, additive mixture of color stimuli, additive mixture of colour stimuli, air-entraining agent, Antagonistic effect, antifoam, antifoam agent, antifoaming, antifoaming agent, antifreeze additive, anti-froth agent, antifrothing agent, antiicing additive, antiscumming agent, antistalling additive, antistalling agent, Arsanilic Acid ♦ Bachelier process, Biodiesel, Boltzmann relation, Brownian motion process, BULK-STATION OPERATOR ♦ CAUSTICISER, caustic-liquor maker, colorimetric system, continuous function ♦ defoamer, defoaming agent, deposit modifier ♦ Edetic Acid, E-plane T junction, Ethanol - Ethyl alcohol ♦ f oam-preventing product, ferro phosphorus, ferro-silicon, foam breaker, foam depressant, foam inhibitor, fumed silica, Furylfuramide ♦ gasoline finisher, Generally Recognized as Safe, genetic effect of radiation ♦ H-plane T junction ♦ instrumental stimuli ♦ Lancaster's partition of chi-squares, lead blender, leaded fuel, linear map ♦ matching stimuli ♦ OPERATOR, CATALYST CONCENTRATION ♦ permanently-modified aluminium alloy, permanent-modification aluminium alloy, pyrogene silica ♦ reference stimuli, REFORMULATED GASOLINE ♦ series T, shunt T, Sodium Glutamate, solfato, solfato di sodio, SOLUTIONS OPERATOR, Special K, SUPPLY CONTROLLER, Synergistic effect, sysygy tide ♦ thickening agent, Toxic Substances Control Act, trichromatic system ♦ unwashed gum ♦ Vitasul ♦ Wiener process, wood flour. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Additive

Domain	Title
Books	Additive migration from plastics into food (reference) Additive Number Theory: Inverse Problems and the Geometry of Sumsets (Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 165) (reference) Additive Theory of Prime Numbers (Translations of Mathematical Monographs: Vol 13) (reference) Finitely Additive Measures and Relaxations of Extremal Problems (Monographs in Contemporary Mathematics) (reference) Food Additive Toxicology (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Feed Additive Compendium (reference) Journal Of Vinyl And Additive Technology (reference) (more periodical examples)

Music	Additive, Vol. 4 [IMPORT] (reference) Modified Additive (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	NETWARE 4.2 10C ADDITIVE LICS ONLY (reference) NETWARE 5.1 5C ADDITIVE LICS ONLY (reference) NetWare 4.2 Upgrade (10 Connection Additive License Only) (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Additive

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		No food or food additive has been implicated as a cause of any childhood cancer. (references)
		The benefits of antenatal corticosteroids are additive to those derived from surfactant therapy. (references)
		Available data demonstrate that chemotherapy and tamoxifen are additive in their impact on survival when employed as adjuvant treatment of breast cancer. (references)
Business		A food additive is subject to re-market approval before it can be used in food products. (references)
		All approved food additives are listed in the Korea Food Additive Code and unapproved materials must go through the proper channels for code listing. (references)
		Foreign firms who seek entry into the Korean market must meet local regulations on both of two levels--as either a finished product or as an individual ingredient or additive. (references)
Political Economy	REPUBLIC OF KOREA	It has committed to bring its Food Code, Food Additive Code and labeling requirements into conformity with international standards, and has taken some steps to do so. Import clearance, however, still takes longer than in other Asian countries. (references)
Trade	Argentina	If the additive in question does not appear on that list, its registration can be requested to INAL. (references)
	Denmark	Food additives must be declared in the ingredients list by functional class followed by specific name or E-no., as defined in the food additives regulation and positive additive list. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Additive

"Additive" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.32% of the time. "Additive" is used about 146 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	99.32%	145	26,217
Noun (singular)	0.68%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	146	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Additive

Expressions using "additive": additive complementary colors ♦ additive complementary colours ♦ additive mixture of color stimuli ♦ additive mixture of colour stimuli ♦ antifreeze additive ♦ antiicing additive ♦ antistalling additive ♦ artificial additive ♦ color additive ♦ colour additive ♦ food additive. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "additive": additive-based, additive-free.
	Ending with "additive": non-additive.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Additive

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
food additive	179
feed additive	126
additive	111
fuel additive	87
oil additive	84
plastic additive	29
gasoline additive	27
diesel fuel additive	26
concrete additive	20
paint additive	19
additive game	17
diesel additive	17
engine oil additive	16
ceramic paint additive	16
additive gasoline manufacturer	15
battery additive	15
engine additive	14
gas additive	14
transmission additive	14
soil additive	11
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Additive

Language		Translations for "additive"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shtesë (accretion, addendum, appendage, appendix, bonus, extension, extra, increment, insert, intercalation, makeweight, plus, refill, supplement, weighting). (various references)

Arabic		‏جمعي (additional, collective, multilateral, plural). (various references)

Bulgarian		кумулативен (accumulative, cumulative), натрупващ се (accretive), добавъчен (accessary, accessory, additional, extra, fresh, further, odd, plus, supplemental, supplementary, surplus), добавено вещество, допълнителен (accessary, accessorial, accidental, additional, adjunct, complementary, contributory, excess, expletive, extra, extraordinary, farther, follow up, fresh, further, over, plus, pony, relief, side, subsidiary, supplementary, tributary). (various references)

Chinese		添� 剂. (various references)

Czech		aditiv, přísada (addition, admixture, dressing, ingredient, vehicle). (various references)

Danish		additiv (admixture, extender). (various references)

Dutch		additivum, additief (admixture), aanvullend middel (extender), vloeibaarheidsverbeteraar (flow improver), toevoegsel (adjunct, adjuvant), toevoeging (addition, add-on, attachment, joiningof one thing to another, junction), toeslagstof (admixture), toegift (addendum, addition, allowance), toegevoegd middel (extender), hulpstof (adjuvant, Admixture), extraatje (addendum, addition), doop (baptism, christening), bijvoegsel. (various references)

Farsi		افزودنی , افزاینده (Multiplier). (various references)

Finnish		lisäaine (admixture, extender). (various references)

French		additif (addendum, addition, addition agent). (various references)

German		Zusatzmittel (admixture), Zusatz (accessory, add, addend, addition, add-on, adjunct, admixture, amendment, application, apposition, backing, cement, codicil, endorsement, feed supplement, improver, replacement, replenishment, rider, separable element, steel mill, supplement). (various references)

Greek		πρόσθετο (addition, add-on, admixture, steel mill). (various references)

Hungarian		adalékanyag (admixture, aggregate), összeadandó. (various references)

Italian		additivo (adjuvant, admixture, cement, extender, feed supplement, supplement). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		添� 物 (addition, appendix). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		て�"かぶつ (addition, appendix), て�"かもの (addition, appendix). (various references)

Korean		난수. (various references)

Pig Latin		additiveay

Portuguese		aditivo (addition agent, admixture, augend, extender, feed supplement, minuet, supplement). (various references)

Romanian		aditiv, de adunat, cumulativ (cumulative), care se adaugã (adjunctive). (various references)

Russian		присадка. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		aditiv, dodatak (add, addendum, addition, adjunct, adulterant, affix, annex, appendage, appendix, apposition, appurtenance, context, extra, insert, makeweight, overplus, plus, supplement). (various references)

Spanish		aditivo (addition agent, admixture, extender, feed supplement, supplement, supplementary feed). (various references)

Swedish		tillsats (addition, adjunct, admixture, adulterant, alloy, attachment, dash). (various references)

Turkish		katkı maddesi, katkı (addition, appendage, contribution, part, subscription), katılacak, eklenecek. (various references)

Ukranian		адитивний, присадка (addition). (various references)

Vietnamese		vật để cộng v� o, để thêm v� o, để cộng v� o. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Additive

Derivations
	Words beginning with "additive": additively, additives. (additional references)
	Words ending with "additive": nonadditive. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Additive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adative, additivity, aditive, adjitive. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Additive"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "additive" (pronounced a"dutiv)
5	-d u t i v	sedative.
4	-u t i v	accusative, acquisitive, affirmative, alliterative, alternative, anticompetitive, argumentative, causative, cognitive, commemorative, communicative, comparative, competitive, consecutive, conservative, consultative, contemplative, cumulative, curative, decorative, definitive, degenerative, demonstrative, derivative, diminutive, dispositive, duplicative, evocative, executive, expletive, exploitative, Federative, figurative, fixative, formative, fugitive, generative, hypersensitive, illustrative, imaginative, imperative, indicative, infinitive, informative, initiative, inoperative, inquisitive, insensitive, interpretive, intuitive, laxative, lucrative, narrative, negative, neoconservative, noncompetitive, noncumulative, nonexecutive, normative, nutritive, operative, palliative, participative, pejorative, positive, prerogative, preservative, preventative, primitive, prohibitive, provocative, punitive, putative, recuperative, relative, remunerative, rep, repetitive, representative, restorative, secretive, sensitive, speculative, superlative, talkative, tentative, ultraconservative, uncompetitive, uncooperative, unimaginative, uninformative, unrepresentative, vituperative.
3	-t i v	abortive, accommodative, accumulative, active, adaptive, addictive, adjective, administrative, adoptive, affective, appointive, appreciative, assaultive, assertive, attentive, attractive, authoritative, automotive, captive, collaborative, collective, combative, conductive, congestive, connective, constructive, contraceptive, cooperative, corrective, corruptive, counterproductive, creative, deceptive, defective, deliberative, descriptive, destructive, detective, digestive, dilutive, directive, disincentive, disparages, disruptive, dissipative, distinctive, distributive, effective, elective, elucidative, eruptive, exhaustive, exploitive, facultative, festive, furtive, hyperactive, imitative, inactive, inattentive, incentive, ineffective, infective, injunctive, innovative, instinctive, instructive, interactive, introspective, invective, inventive, investigative, irrespective, iterative, legislative, locomotive, manipulative, meditative, motive, native, nonautomotive, nonnative, nonproductive, objective, obstructive, octave, overactive, perceptive, perspective, photoconductive, plaintive, predictive, preemptive, presumptive, preventive, proactive, probative, productive, prognosticative, projective, prospective, protective, qualitative, quantitative, radioactive, reactive, receptive, reconstructive, redemptive, redistributive, reflective, refractive, regulative, rehabilitative, reproductive, respective, restive, restrictive, retroactive, retrospective, seductive, selective, stimulative, subjective, substantive, suggestive, superconductive, supportive, unattractive, unproductive, unreceptive, vegetative, vindictive.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Additive

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-i-i-t-v"
	-2 letters: dative, divide, tidied.
	-3 letters: aided, dated, davit, didie, dived, ivied, teiid, tided, vitae.
	-4 letters: adit, aide, avid, date, dead, deva, died, diet, dita, dite, diva, dive, edit, idea, tide, tied, vide, vied, vita.
	-5 letters: add, aid, ait, ate, ave, dad, dev, did, die, dit, eat, eta, tad, tae, tav, tea, ted, tie, vat, vet, via, vie.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-i-i-t-v"
	+1 letter: addictive, additives.
	+2 letters: additively, vindicated.
	+3 letters: derivatized, devitalized, divaricated, individuate, invalidated, nonadditive.
	+4 letters: additivities, adjudicative, desiderative, individuated, individuates, nonaddictive.
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