| Pronunciation: | 'aditiv | ||
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| Matching Terms: | additive effect, additive genetic effects, additive genetic variance | ||
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| Synonyms: | accumulative, addable, addible, bilinear, cumulative, linear, summational, summative | ||
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| Antonyms: | nonlinear, subtractive | ||
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| See Also: | addition, adjuvant, artificial additive, food additive, improver | ||
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| Definition: | \Ad"di*tive\, a. [L. additivus.] (Math.)
Proper to be added; positive; -- opposed to {subtractive}.
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| Definition: | A function f : X -> Y is additive if for all Z <= X f (lub Z) = lub f z : z in z (f "preserves lubs"). All additive functions defined over cpos are continuous. | ||
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| See Also: | mathematics | ||
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| Related Terms: | 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 | ||
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