Search Result for "additive":
Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1. something added to enhance food or gasoline or paint or medicine;
ADJECTIVE (2)
1. designating or involving an equation whose terms are of the first degree;
[syn: linear, additive]
2. characterized or produced by addition;
- Example: "an additive process"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Additive \Ad"di*tive\, a. [L. additivus.] (Math.) Proper to be added; positive; -- opposed to subtractive. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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
