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Even when they're not causing injury, human-controlled cars are often driven inefficiently, ineptly, antisocially, or in other ways additive to the sum of human misery.
Tom Chatfield

Meaning of "additive" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ADDITIVE

From Late Latin additīvus, from addere to add.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF ADDITIVE

additive  [ˈædɪtɪv] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ADDITIVE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Additive can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES ADDITIVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of additive in the English dictionary

The definition of additive in the dictionary is characterized or produced by addition; cumulative. Other definition of additive is any substance added to something to improve it, prevent deterioration, etc.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ADDITIVE


auditive
ˈɔːdɪtɪv
capacitive
kəˈpæsɪtɪv
cognitive
ˈkɒɡnɪtɪv
competitive
kəmˈpɛtɪtɪv
creative
kriːˈeɪtɪv
definitive
dɪˈfɪnɪtɪv
expeditive
ɪksˈpedɪtɪv
fugitive
ˈfjuːdʒɪtɪv
HIV-positive
ˌeɪtʃaɪviːˈpɒzɪtɪv
innovative
ˈɪnəˌveɪtɪv
insensitive
ɪnˈsɛnsɪtɪv
integrative
ˈɪntɪˌɡreɪtɪv
intuitive
ɪnˈtjuːɪtɪv
native
ˈneɪtɪv
nonadditive
ˌnɒnˈædɪtɪv
positive
ˈpɒzɪtɪv
primitive
ˈprɪmɪtɪv
repetitive
rɪˈpɛtɪtɪv
sensitive
ˈsɛnsɪtɪv
traditive
ˈtrædɪtɪv

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ADDITIVE

adding
adding machine
Addington
addio
Addis Ababa
Addison
Addison´s disease
additament
addition
additional
Additional Member System
additionality
additionally
addititious
additive primary
additive process
additive-free
additively
additivity
additory

WORDS THAT END LIKE ADDITIVE

active
anticompetitive
aperitive
case-sensitive
diapositive
false positive
genitive
Gram-positive
infinitive
inquisitive
intransitive
nutritive
partitive
photosensitive
price-sensitive
prohibitive
punitive
seropositive
time-sensitive
touch-sensitive
transitive

Synonyms and antonyms of additive in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ADDITIVE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «additive» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of additive

Translation of «additive» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ADDITIVE

Find out the translation of additive to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of additive from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «additive» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

添加剂
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

aditivo
570 millions of speakers

English

additive
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

additive
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

عُنْصُر إِضافِيّ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

добавка
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

aditivo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বিশেষ উদ্দেশ্যে সংযোজনের বস্তু
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

additif
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Aditif
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Zusatz
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

添加剤
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

첨가물
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Aditif
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

phụ gia
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சேர்க்கை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मिश्रित पदार्थ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

katkı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

additivo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

dodatek
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

добавка
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

aditiv
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πρόσθετο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

toevoeging
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tillsatsmedel
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tilsetningsstoff
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of additive

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ADDITIVE»

The term «additive» is very widely used and occupies the 20.387 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ADDITIVE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about additive

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2 QUOTES WITH «ADDITIVE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word additive.
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Tom Chatfield
Even when they're not causing injury, human-controlled cars are often driven inefficiently, ineptly, antisocially, or in other ways additive to the sum of human misery.
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Laura Ziskin
What's great about making movies is the sort of additive process of bringing people together and having an idea and watching the idea be added to and at the end you have this thing.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ADDITIVE»

Discover the use of additive in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to additive and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Additive Combinatorics
The text is supplemented by a large number of exercises and new results.
Terence Tao, Van H. Vu, 2006
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Additive Manufacturing Technologies: Rapid Prototyping to ...
This text is a comprehensive overview of RP technologies as well as support technologies such as software systems, vacuum casting, plating and others.
Ian Gibson, David W. Rosen, Brent Stucker, 2009
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Additive Number Theory The Classical Bases
The book is also an introduction to the circle method and sieve methods, which are the principal tools used to study the classical bases. The only prerequisites for the book are undergraduate courses in number theory and analysis.
Melvyn B. Nathanson, 1996
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Non-Additive Measure and Integral
In addition to serving as an important reference, the book can be used as a mathematics textbook for graduate courses or seminars, containing many exercises to support or supplement the text.
D. Denneberg, 1994
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Combined Compendium of Food Additive Specifications: ...
This volume covers methodology and analytical procedures used. The other volumes are: Vol. 1: additives A-D (ISBN 9789251053928); Vol. 2: additives E-O (ISBN 9789251053935). Vol. 3: additives P-Z (ISBN 9789251053942).
‎2005
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Additive Migration from Plastics Into Foods: A Guide for ...
This book will be of interest to those engaged in the implementation of packaging legislation, including management, analytical chemists and the manufacturers of foods, beverages, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics and also scientific and ...
Thomas Roy Crompton, 2007
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Combinatorial Number Theory and Additive Group Theory
This book begins with two seminars: Additive Cominatorics and non-unique factorizations; Sumsets and structure.
‎2009
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Generalized Additive Models
This book describes an array of power tools for data analysis that are based on nonparametric regression and smoothing techniques.
T.J. Hastie, R.J. Tibshirani, 1990
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Additive Number Theory: Inverse Problems and the Geometry of ...
This book reviews results in inverse problems for finite sets of integers, culminating in Ruzsa's elegant proof of the deep theorem of Freiman that a finite set of integers with a small sumset must be a large subset of an n-dimensional ...
Melvyn B. Nathanson, 1996
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Generalized Additive Models: An Introduction with R
Now in widespread use, generalized additive models (GAMs) have evolved into a standard statistical methodology of considerable flexibility.
Simon Wood, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ADDITIVE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term additive is used in the context of the following news items.
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Triptech Plastics Announces Unmatched Resin for 3D Printing and …
Triptech Plastics has special capabilities to support Big Area Additive Manufacturing (BAAM) fabricators and brings to Eastman's new line of ... «Robotics Tomorrow, Jul 15»
2
Is Multimaterial Additive Manufacturing Foreshadowing Another …
Additive manufacturing (AM) machines have moved far beyond thermoplastics and photopolymers as the only media, with many now able to ... «DesignNews, Jul 15»
3
CMTS Countdown: The future of additive manufacturing
SME has announced new conference content focused on the future of additive manufacturing at this year's CMTS event, taking place in ... «Canadian Metalworking, Jul 15»
4
Renishaw AM250 additive manufacturing system
Hoffman Estates, Illinois - The Renishaw AM250's laser melting additive-metal manufacturing process is capable of producing fully dense metal ... «Today's Energy Solutions, Jul 15»
5
SolarLayer Additive Can Transform Any Surface into a Solar Energy …
SolarLayer is the new additive for paints, coatings and flooring that transforms any surface into a solar energy receptor. Through its application ... «AZoCleantech, Jul 15»
6
Additive increases PE mechanical properties
Total Cray Valley has debuted an additive that it says improves mechanical properties of polyethylene. The Exton, Pa., company's Dymalink ... «Plastics News, Jul 15»
7
Could This Machine Push 3-D Printing into the Manufacturing Big …
An emerging additive manufacturing technology could be fast and cheap enough to compete with conventional methods, but it faces ... «MIT Technology Review, Jun 15»
8
Nuclear AMRC offers bulk additive manufacturing
Funded by the High Value Manufacturing Catapult, the bulk additive manufacturing cell at the University of Sheffield's Nuclear Advanced ... «Eureka, Jun 15»
9
Rolls-Royce breaks additive record with printed Trent-XWB bearing
The component was not made in a single piece; it contains 48 aerofoil-shaped vane components, which were also made by additive ... «The Engineer, Jun 15»
10
Making houses in Sweden with additive manufacturing
In a collaborative project worth SEK 35 million, researchers and external partners are together developing technology to make full-scale 3D ... «Phys.Org, Jun 15»

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