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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Additive \Ad"di*tive\, adjective [L. additivus.] (Math.) Proper to be added; positive; -- opposed to {subtractive}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
additive
adjective
1: characterized or produced by addition; "an additive process" [ant: {subtractive}]
2: designating or involving an equation whose terms are of the first degree [syn: {linear}] [ant: {nonlinear}]
noun: something added to enhance food or gasoline or paint or medicine
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
48 Moby Thesaurus words for "additive": accession, accessory, accompaniment, accumulative, addenda, addendum, additament, addition, additional, additory, additum, adjunct, adjuvant, annex, annexation, appanage, appendage, appendant, appurtenance, appurtenant, attachment, augment, augmentation, chain, coda, complement, component, concomitant, constituent, continuation, corollary, cumulative, elemental, extension, extrapolation, fixture, increase, increment, offshoot, pendant, reinforcement, side effect, side issue, summational, summative, supplement, tailpiece, undergirding
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
additive A function f : X -> Y is additive if for all Z
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