additive

Noun · Adjective
Synonyms: linear

WordNet 3.0

Noun (1)

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

Adjective (2)

  1. designating or involving an equation whose terms are of the first degreeSynonyms: linear
  2. characterized or produced by addition“an additive process”
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Additive \Ad"di*tive\, a. [L. additivus.] (Math.) Proper to be added; positive; -- opposed to subtractive. [1913 Webster]

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

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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