Additive meaning

What does “additive” mean? Definitions, examples, synonyms and opposites.

“additive” is a noun and adjective with 3 meanings. Its most common meaning is: something added to enhance food or gasoline or paint or medicine.

additive

noun

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

adjective

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

    Synonymslinear
  2. characterized or produced by addition

    “an additive process”

    Oppositessubtractive

Source: WordNet 3.1, Princeton University