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subadditive

adj

Etymology

From sub- + additive.

  1. derived from addere
  2. derived from additivus
  3. prefixed as subadditive — “sub + additive”

Definitions

  1. Such that the image of a sum is at most the sum of the images of the summands.

    • The square-root function is subadditive under addition because #92;sqrt#123;a#43;b#125;#92;le#92;sqrta#43;#92;sqrtb.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for subadditive. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA