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additative

additative is the misconstruction of additive.

Meaning of additive

Adjective

additive (comparative more additive, superlative most additive)

  1. Pertaining to addition; that can be, or has been, added.
  2. (usually) That is distributive over addition.
    • Matrix multiplication is additive, in that M#92;vecv#43;M#92;vecw#61;M(#92;vecv#43;#92;vecw).
  3. Whose operator is identified as addition.
    • It is natural to look at a finite cyclic group as an additive group.
  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.

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Questions about additative

What is additative the misconstruction of?
Additative is the misconstruction of additive.

Words near additative in the dictionary

  1. Addisonianism
  2. Addisons
  3. Addisyn
  4. additament
  5. additaments
  6. additative
  7. addition
  8. addition polymerisation
  9. addition polymerisations
  10. addition polymerization
  11. addition polymerizations

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