Additive

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Additive \Ad"di*tive\, a. [L. additivus.] (Math.)
     Proper to be added; positive; -- opposed to {subtractive}.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  additive
       adj 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}]
       n : 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 <= X
           f (lub Z)  =  lub { f z : z in Z }
       
          (f "preserves {lub}s").  All additive functions defined over
          {cpo}s are {continuous}.
       
          ("<=" is written in {LaTeX} as {\subseteq}, "lub" as \sqcup ).
       
          (1995-02-03)