additive

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  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
  3. adjective characterized or produced by addition

Etymology

From Late Latin additivus, from the participial stem of Latin addere (“to add”).

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