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Additive

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

n. A substance added in small amounts to something else to improve, strengthen, or otherwise alter it.

adj. Marked by, produced by, or involving addition.

adj. Of or being any of certain primary colors of wavelengths that may be mixed with one another to produce other colors. See Table at color.

adj. Pertaining to addition; that can be, or has been, added.

adj. Distributive over addition.

adj. Having addition as an operator.

adj. Pertaining to chemical addition.

adj. Describing genes (or the interaction etc. of such genes) which govern the same trait and whose effects work together on the phenotype.

n. A substance added to another substance or product for its ability to alter its properties.

adj. Proper to be added; positive; -- opposed to subtractive.

To be added; of the nature of an addition; helping to increase: as, an additive correction (a correction to be added).

adj. characterized or produced by addition

adj. designating or involving an equation whose terms are of the first degree

n. something added to enhance food or gasoline or paint or medicine

"These are what we call additive colours, which have a different colour wheel all together composed of Red,"

cumulative completing summational intercalary extra

subtractive

additive function additive inverse additive identity additive group additive color

Words with the same meaning

positive

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