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additive
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"something that is added" to a chemical solution or food product, 1945, from additive (adj.).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 (context mathematics English) Pertaining to addition; that can be, or has been, added. 2 (context mathematics of a function, etc. English) distributive#English over addition. 3 (context algebra English) Having addition as an operator. 4 (context chemistry ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Additive \Ad"di*tive\, a. [L. additivus.] (Math.) Proper to be added; positive; -- opposed to subtractive .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Additive may refer to: In science Additive color , as opposed to subtractive color Additive function , a function in number theory Additive map , a function that preserves the addition operation Additive set-function – see Sigma additivity Additive inverse ...
Usage examples of additive.
Although it was an available alternative, some wholesalers refused to put chicory or any other additives in their coffee.
These measures stretched out the available coffee far better than did chicory additives or other substitutes, but there still were severe shortages.
The increased demand for ethanol as a gasoline additive in many states, but particularly in the huge California market, has spurred the US government to continue its exemption of the federal fuel tax on ethanol.
After studying it for some time Leeming decided that the liquid was either a poison or the knockout additive favoured by Mr.
Four of the neighbors are also colorful additives in glazes and dyes, suggesting a variety of uses for that rarest of birds, technetium, if only people could be gotten interested in it.
But now he was old and exhausted and did not know current fashions and modern tastes, and whenever he did manage to concoct a new perfume of his own, it was some totally old-fashioned, unmarketable stuff that within a year they had to dilute ten to one and peddle as an additive for fountains.
It also mentions tin, cadmium, lead, bismuth, cobalt, titanium, vanadium, boron, sodium and zirconium as special purpose additives.
He and the Ballenger brothers have gone several rounds over cattle prods and feed additives.
It had been thought that accomplishing such conjuring with people was not only a lost art but impossible because, among other things, such nefarious work required the use of not only Additive but Subtractive Magic.
Additive and Subtractive Magic in order to use the gateway or to claim the power of Orden for himself.
Richard is the first in thousands of years to be born with the Subtractive side as well as the Additive.
One of the base chemicals is bromobenzene, a motor oil additive more commonly used to make plastics, pcp is as dangerous to make as it is to ingest.
TV dinners loaded with silicone fillers and chemical additives and begin cooking our fantasies together from scratch.
Then Burson would bring his jackals and they would hunt again, crisscrossing every room, spraying pheromone additives across the floors and following her neon tracks to her hidey-hole.
In the early years, the lure of many soda drinks was their powerful narcotic and nonnarcotic additives.