SpellRight › Spelling
Uncommonadditive
The correct spelling is additive.
How to pronounce additive
noun
IPA: /ˈæ.dɪ.tɪv/
Say it like: Add-iti-ve
The correct spelling is additive. A substance added to another substance or product to produce specific properties in the combined substance. For example: "Oil may be used as an additive in gasoline to improve the lubrication of a small engine."
Usage Examples
“Oil may be used as an additive in gasoline to improve the lubrication of a small engine.”
“Matrix multiplication is additive, in that M\vec v+M\vec w=M(\vec v+\vec w).”
“It is natural to look at a finite cyclic group as an additive group.”
Meanings
noun
- 1.A substance added to another substance or product to produce specific properties in the combined substance.
- 2.(grammar) A word or phrase that adds something, such as also, even, or nor.
adjective
- 1.Pertaining to addition; that can be, or has been, added.
- 2.(of a function, etc.) That is distributive over addition.
- 3.(of a group, semigroup, etc.) Whose operator is identified as addition.
- 4.Pertaining to chemical addition.
- 5.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.
Similar words
Words related in meaning — check their spelling too.