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Additive

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Noun

1. additive

something added to enhance food or gasoline or paint or medicine

Adjective

2. additive, linear

designating or involving an equation whose terms are of the first degree

3. additive

characterized or produced by addition

Example Sentences:
'an additive process'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Additive

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adjective
1. 
characterized or produced by addition; cumulative
noun
2. 
any substance added to something to improve it, prevent deterioration, etc
3.  short for food additive

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Additive

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adjective
1. 
showing or relating to addition
2. 
to be added
noun
3. 
a substance added to another in small quantities to produce a desired effect, as a preservative added to food or an antiknock added to gasoline

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Additive

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n.
A substance added in small amounts to something else to improve, strengthen, or otherwise alter it.
adj.
1. Marked by, produced by, or involving addition.
2. Of or being any of certain primary colors of wavelengths that may be mixed with one another to produce other colors. See Table at color.

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