Definitions for additive

additive ad·di·tive

Spelling: [ad-i-tiv]
IPA: /ˈæd ɪ tɪv/

Additive is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 143 anagrams from letters in additive (addeiitv).

Definitions for additive

noun

  1. something that is added, as one substance to another, to alter or improve the general quality or to counteract undesirable properties:
  2. Nutrition. Also called food additive. a substance added directly to food during processing, as for preservation, coloring, or stabilization. something that becomes part of food or affects it as a result of packaging or processing, as debris or radiation.

adjective

  1. characterized or produced by addition; cumulative:
  2. Mathematics. (of a function) having the property that the function of the union or sum of two quantities is equal to the sum of the functional values of each quantity; linear.

Origin of additive

From the Late Latin word additīvus, dating back to 1690-1700. See additament, -ive

Examples for additive

Bearing in mind the additive effects of stimulus we see that its effective intensity increases with the duration of application.

It is, however, better to employ the additive effect of a definite number of feeble make-and-break shocks.

The additive and subtractive methods are chiefly involved, but there is another method which is an "averaging" additive one.

By a most remarkable coincidence, the Egyptians, as the Mayas, considered these additive five days unlucky.

When the attached thermometer reads below 28, the correction is additive.

The first number should be additive, the second subtractive, etc.

The additive was relaxation and his world was to be as commonplace as the hearth.

These quantities are additive for years after 1800, and subtractive for years before that epoch.

The relationships are not arithmetical, additive, mechanical, but are vital and organic.

Conversely, indefinite integrals are indeterminate to the extent of an additive constant.

Word Value for additive
Scrable

13

Words with friends

14

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