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additive

additive

2 4.5
Made by adding parts together rather than by multiplying them
  • adjective
  • /ˈædɪtɪv/
  • Specialized
translation icon : aditivo
  • 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.

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Examples

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • In sound engineering, different audio signals can have additive effects when mixed together during a recording.

Synonyms

cumulative
vsadditive
47 5.3

Increasing over time as more things are added

focuses on being produced by addition not on growing over time
accumulative
vsadditive
1 5.5

Becoming larger because people add things over time

specifies being produced by addition rather than by collecting or time based growth
summational
vsadditive
8.4

Relating to adding things together

is about being made by addition rather than other operations

Antonyms

1 6.3

Removing part of something to make it smaller or change it

multiplicative
  • Specialized
1 6.4

About using times with numbers or amounts

Compounds

food additive
  • Specialized
5 3.2

A substance added to food to make it taste better, look better, or stay good longer

additive inverse
  • Specialized
7.9

A number that you add to another number to get zero

A substance added to food to improve taste, appearance, or shelf life

How Additive

additive
  • Specialized
2 4.5
nonadditive
  • Specialized
8.3

Surface Forms

additive positive

Morphology

additive = add (transparent) = add + ive

The adjective is directly formed from the verb 'add' with the productive adjectival suffix '-ive', giving a meaning 'relating to addition'.

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.