additive Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun something added to enhance food or gasoline or paint or medicine
  2. adjective designating or involving an equation whose terms are of the first degree
    linear.
  3. adjective characterized or produced by addition
    • an additive process

WordNet


Ad"di*tive adjective
Etymology
L. additivus.
Definitions
  1. (Math.) Proper to be added; positive; -- opposed to subtractive.

Webster 1913