Crossword clues for additive
additive
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Additive \Ad"di*tive\, a. [L. additivus.] (Math.) Proper to be added; positive; -- opposed to subtractive.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1690s, "tending to be added," from Latin additivus "added, annexed," from past participle stem of addere (see addition).
"something that is added" to a chemical solution or food product, 1945, from additive (adj.).
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 English) Pertaining to chemical addition. 5 (context genetics English) Describing genes (or the interaction etc. of such genes) which govern the same trait and whose effects work together on the phenotype. n. 1 A substance added to another substance or product for its ability to alter its properties. 2 (context grammar English) A word or phrase that adds something, such as ''also'', ''even'', or ''nor''.
WordNet
adj. characterized or produced by addition; "an additive process" [ant: subtractive]
designating or involving an equation whose terms are of the first degree [syn: linear] [ant: nonlinear]
n. something added to enhance food or gasoline or paint or medicine
Wikipedia
Additive may refer to:
- In science
- Additive color, as opposed to subtractive color
- Additive function, a function in number theory
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Additive map, a function that preserves the addition operation
- Additive set-function – see Sigma additivity
- Additive inverse, an arithmetic concept
- Additive category, a preadditive category with finite biproducts
- Additive model, a statistical regression model
- Additive synthesis, an audio synthesis technique
- Additivity, in biochemistry, the simple sum of effects due to multiple causes.
- In engineering
- Feed additive
- Gasoline additive, a substance used to improve the performance of a fuel, lower emissions or clean the engine
- Oil additive, a substance used to improve the performance of a lubricant
- Weakly additive, the quality of preferences in some logistics problems
- Paint additive, a chemical added in to paint in very small quantities for a specific property improvement
- Polymer additive
- Biodegradable additives
- Other
- Food additive, a substance added to food to improve flavor or appearance
- Additive Records, a record label
- Additive rhythm, a larger period of time constructed from smaller ones
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.