addition
nounEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁tder. Proto-Italic *-ðō Latin -dō Latin addō Latin additiōder. Old French aditionder. Middle English addicioun English addition Sense of “what is added” dates from 14th century, from Middle English addicioun, addition, from Old French adition, from Latin additiōnem, accusative singular of additiō, from addō (“add, put”).
- derived from additiōnem
- derived from adition
- inherited from addicioun
Definitions
The act of adding anything.
- The addition of five more items to the agenda will make the meeting unbearably long.
Anything that is added.
The arithmetic operation of adding.
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A dot at the right side of a note as an indication that its sound is to be lengthened one…
A dot at the right side of a note as an indication that its sound is to be lengthened one half.
A title annexed to a person's name to identify him or her more precisely.
- […]They clip vs drunkards, and with Swiniſh phraſe / Soyle our addition, and indeede it takes / From our atchieuements, though perform’d at height / The pith and marrow of our attribute[…]
Something added to a coat of arms, as a mark of honour.
an organic reaction where two or more molecules combine to form a larger one (the adduct).
The neighborhood
- synonymsupplement
- synonymaddition
- antonymexclusionantonym(s) of “act of adding”
- antonymreductionantonym(s) of “act of adding”
- antonymdeductionantonym(s) of
- antonymsubtractionantonym(s) of “arithmetic operation”
- antonymremoval
- neighboradd
- neighboradder
- neighboradditive
- neighborplus sign
- neighbor+ = + =
Derived
additional, additionary, additionist, addition polymerisation, addition polymerization, addition reaction, addition sign, coaddition, cycloaddition, digitaddition, gyroaddition, heteroaddition, in addition, in addition to, isoaddition, Michael addition, misaddition, nonaddition, photoaddition, polyaddition, readdition, retroaddition, spike addition, superaddition
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at addition. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at addition. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at addition
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA