Look up: additive

1. Additive
   The mixing of colour from one or more lanterns focussed on the same point on stage to produce another colour.
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2. Additive
   Substance added to a food to preserve a fresh appearance, taste, or texture, or to improve nutritional value. May be natural or synthetic.
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3. additive
   [adj] - characterized or produced by addition 2. [n] - something added to enhance food or gasoline or paint or medicine
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4. additive
   A substance added in a small amount, usually to a fluid, for a special purpose, such as to reduce friction, corrosion, etc.
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5. additive
   a situation in which the best estimate of a dependent variable is obtained by simply adding together the appropriately computed effects of each of the independent variables Category: Statistics • any substance incorporated in wood-base fibre and particle panel material or in an adhesive ...
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6. Additive
   a small quantity of material added to another to change its characteristics, eg to change its colour or to make it harden more quickly.
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7. Additive
   Ad'di·tive adjective [ Latin additivus .] (Math.) Proper to be added; positive; -- opposed to subtractive .
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8. additive
   1. <chemistry> Characterised by addition. ... 2. A substance, as a flavouring agent, preservative or vitamin, added to another substance to improve its appearance, increase its nutritional value, etc. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
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9. additive
   adjective characterized or produced by addition; `an additive process`
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10. additive
    noun something added to enhance food or gasoline or paint or medicine
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11. additive
    (ad´ĭ-tiv) characterized by addition. a substance added to another, such as to improve its appearance or increase its nutritive value.
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12. Additive
    • (a.) Proper to be added; positive; -- opposed to subtractive.
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13. additive
    (from the article `electrochemical reaction`) A converse process is the smoothing of the original surface irregularities, which may occur when some foreign species, called an additive, is present ...
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14. additive
    (from the article `fibre, man-made`) In order to achieve certain desirable fibre properties that cannot be obtained by polymers alone or to overcome certain deficiencies of polymers, ... A number of ingredients are added to both natural and synthetic rubber in order to obtain certain desirable properties. By convention, mix ... [2 re...
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15. additive
    in foods, any of various chemical substances added to foods to produce specific desirable effects. The term additive may also be expanded to include ...
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16. additive
    1. characterized by addition. 2. a substance, as a flavouring agent, preservative, or vitamin, added to another substance to improve its appearance, increase its nutritional value, etc.
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17. additive
    (mathematics) 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. ('(=' is written in LaTeX as \subseteq, 'lub' as \sqcup ). (1995-02-03)
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18. additive
    Type: Term Pronunciation: ad′i-tiv Definitions: 1. A substance not naturally part of a material (food) but deliberately added to fulfill some specific purpose (preservation). 2. Tending to add or be added; denoting addition. 3. In metric studies (genetics, epidemiology, physiology, statistics)...
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19. Additive
    Propellant ingredient used to enhance physical or ballistic properties.
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20. Additive
    A chemical substance added to a petroleum product to impart or improve certain properties. Common petroleum product additives are: antifoam agent, anti-wear additive, corrosion inhibitor, demulsifier, detergent, dispersant, emulsifier, EP additive, oiliness agent, oxidation inhibitor, pour point dep...
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21. additive
    a specific substance which is deliberately added to an insulating liquid in small proportion in order to improve certain characteristics
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22. additive
    A substance added to a propellant for any of a variety of reasons, including to stabilize or achieve a more even rate of combustion, to make ignition easier, to lower the freezing point of the propellant (to prevent it freezing in space), or to reduce corrosive effects.
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23. ADDITIVE
    Any non-fibrous component of the stock or material added in small quantity to a coating, in order to confer special properties to the paper.
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24. additive
    In food, any natural or artificial chemical added to prolong the shelf life of processed foods (salt or nitrates), alter the colour, texture, or flavour of food, or improve its food value (vitamins or minerals). Many chemical additives are used and they are subject to regulation, since individuals m...
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