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additive

adj
/ˈæd.ɪ.tɪv/UK/ˈæd.ɪ.tɪv/CA/ˈaɖɪʈɪv/

Etymology

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

  1. derived from addere
  2. derived from additivus

Definitions

  1. Pertaining to addition

    Pertaining to addition; that can be, or has been, added.

  2. That is distributive over addition.

    • Matrix multiplication is additive, in that M#92;vecv#43;M#92;vecw#61;M(#92;vecv#43;#92;vecw).

  3. Whose operator is identified as addition.

    • It is natural to look at a finite cyclic group as an additive group.
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. Pertaining to chemical addition.

    2. Of or pertaining to genes (or the interaction etc. of such genes) which govern the same…

      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.

    3. A substance added to another substance or product to produce specific properties in the…

      A substance added to another substance or product to produce specific properties in the combined substance.

      • Oil may be used as an additive in gasoline to improve the lubrication of a small engine.

    4. A word or phrase that adds something, such as also, even, or nor.

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Derived

additive category, additive color, additive combinatorics, additive function, additive group, additive identity, additive inverse, additively, additive manufacturing, additiveness, additive number theory, additive operation, additive plural, additivism, adele, countably additive, cycloadditive, food additive, geoadditive, heteroadditive, hypoadditive, interadditive, nonadditive, overadditive, pre-additive category, protoadditive, subadditive, superadditive, underadditive, phytoadditive

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at additive. 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.

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A definitional loop anchored at additive. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at additive

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