additive
- adjective
- /ˈædɪtɪv/
- Specialized
- In addition, interpretation of the data was limited by the additive nature of the overall unmet demand score.
- additive connectives
- additive color
- additive effect
And there's, you know, ways of estimating additive generic variation.
- And there's, you know, ways of estimating additive generic variation.
- OK, but utility arises from a simple series of additive processes that net out.
- While it's omission has the benefit of making the payoff perfectly additive.
- And then the product of that collaboration tends to be exponential rather than than just additive, I suppose.
- But if you were to put those together, my thought is that they're probably additive rather than simply just, you know, netting each other out.
- Marketing, AB splitting, you know, new additive manufacturing tools, automated milling, robotics, all of those have been profound changes in our world.
- Most writers are understand that someone else might have an idea that's additive to what they've written.
- OK, so if I were to do CAC major scale using this additive technique, I would go like this.
- It's additive rather than sort of instrumental to what's going on.
- And again, they got better and they're additive.
Examples
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Others seem to regard the effects as sequential, additive, or even hierarchical.
Academic text (1997) -
Thanks to superposition, it's the fact that the electric field is additive over charges.
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There are basically two types of color systems: additive and subtractive.
Academic text (1992) -
The most prevalent example of additive color is color television, which uses red, green, and blue primaries.
Academic text (1992) -
And because the trait is additive, less-selective breeding still produces results.
Academic text (2004) -
Foods interact to provide additive or more than additive (synergistic) influences on health.
Academic text (2004) -
Reich was influenced by African drumming, and he composed numerous pieces that used additive rhythms and slowly shifting harmonies.
Academic text (1998) -
Indeed, the visual influence of congruent lip-rounding was additive or complementary; auditory identification improved with regard to the audio-only condition.
Academic text (2012) -
The RGB color model uses three primary colors that are additive, creating a wide range of hues when combined.
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In sound engineering, different audio signals can have additive effects when mixed together during a recording.
Synonyms
Increasing over time as more things are added
Becoming larger because people add things over time
Relating to adding things together
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A substance added to food to make it taste better, look better, or stay good longer
How Additive
- Specialized
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Additive comes from the verb add meaning 'to put together'. So an additive process builds or changes something by putting parts together, not by multiplying them.