additive
pronunciation
How to pronounce additive in British English:
UK [ˈædətɪv]
How to pronounce additive in American English:
US [ˈædɪtɪv]
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- Noun:
- something added to enhance food or gasoline or paint or medicine
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- Adjective:
- characterized or produced by addition
- designating or involving an equation whose terms are of the first degree
Word Origin
- additive (adj.)
- 1690s, "tending to be added," from Latin additivus "added, annexed," from past participle stem of addere (see addition).
- additive (n.)
- "something that is added" to a chemical solution or food product, 1945, from additive (adj.).
Example
- 1. China has banned its use as a pig feed additive .
- 2. The new laboratory will look at other forms of additive manufacturing , too .
- 3. Additive manufacturing is not yet capable of doing this on a large scale , he points out , but that could change .
- 4. The chinese police found the 2008 scandal being repeated in milk dairies and arrested 96 people for mixing the toxic additive melamine with milk .
- 5. But water was not the only additive .