different between enlargement vs additive

English

Etymology

enlarge +? -ment

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?l??(?)d??m?nt/

Noun

enlargement (countable and uncountable, plural enlargements)

1. An act or instance of making something larger.

2. (figuratively) A making more obvious or serious; exacerbation.
   • 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd, 2005 Barnes & Noble Classics publication of 1912 Wessex edition, p.337

     Bathsheba underwent the enlargement of her husband's absence from hours to days with a slight feeling of surprise, and a slight feeling of relief; yet neither sensation rose at any time far above the level commonly designated as indifference.

3. An image, particularly a photograph, that has been enlarged.
4. (obsolete) Freedom from confinement; liberty.
5. Diffuseness of speech or writing; a speaking at length.
   • 1897, Peter Joseph Cooke, Forensic Eloquence (page 40)

     Briefly, a discourse generally consists in some prefatory remarks which pave the way as it were for the enlargement upon which a speaker usually enters when he speaks to any purpose.

Translations

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?æ.d?.t?v/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?æ.d?.t?v/, [?æ.??.t?v], [?æ.??.??v]

Adjective

additive (comparative more additive, superlative most additive)

1. (mathematics) Pertaining to addition; that can be, or has been, added.
2. (mathematics, of a function, etc.) That is distributive over addition.

3. (group theory, of a group, semigroup, etc.) Whose operator is identified as addition.

4. (chemistry) Pertaining to chemical addition.
5. (genetics) 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.

Translations

Coordinate terms

• multiplicative
• subtractive

Derived terms

Related terms

• additivity

Noun

additive (plural additives)

1. A substance added to another substance or product to produce specific properties in the combined substance.

2. (grammar) A word or phrase that adds something, such as also, even, or nor.

Translations

References

• additive in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• additive in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Further reading

• Additive genetic effects on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Additive polynomial on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Additive utility on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Freshman's dream on Wikipedia.Wikipedia (In which the function ƒ(x) = xⁿ is erroneously thought to be additive.)
• Weakly additive on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• davidite

French

Adjective

additive

1. feminine singular of additif

German

Adjective

additive

1. inflection of additiv:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Adjective

additive

1. feminine plural of additivo