additive
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A substance added to another substance or product to produce specific properties in the combined substance.
โOil may be used as an additive in gasoline to improve the lubrication of a small engine.โ
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(grammar) A word or phrase that adds something, such as also, even, or nor.
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Pertaining to addition; that can be, or has been, added.
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(of a function, etc.) That is distributive over addition.
โMatrix multiplication is additive, in that M\vec v+M\vec w=M(\vec v+\vec w).โ
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(of a group, semigroup, etc.) Whose operator is identified as addition.
โIt is natural to look at a finite cyclic group as an additive group.โ
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Pertaining to chemical addition.
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Of or pertaining to genes (or the interaction etc. of such genes) which govern the same trait and whose effects work together on the phenotype.
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