Usually means: Substance added to enhance properties.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. additive: Merriam-Webster
  2. additive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. additive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. additive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. additive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Additive, additive: Wordnik
  7. additive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. additive: Wiktionary
  9. additive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. additive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. additive: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. additive: Dictionary.com
  13. additive (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. additive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Additive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Additive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. additive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. additive: Rhymezone
  19. Additive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. additive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. additive: FreeDictionary.org
  22. additive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. additive: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. additive: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  25. additive: Merriam-Webster

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. additive: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  3. additive: mosaic glossary

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. additive: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. additive: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. additive: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. additive: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Additive: GLOSSARY OF ALLERGY TERMS
  5. additive: Medical dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. -additive, -additive, additive, additive: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  4. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Tech (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Beer & Brewing Terminology (No longer online)
  3. Additive: Glossary of Paper Terms
  4. Explosives (No longer online)
  5. K & A glossary (No longer online)
  6. Additive: Fiberglass Glossary
  7. Oil Analysis (No longer online)
  8. Paper Making (No longer online)
  9. ADDITIVE: Industry Terms for Fiberglass
  10. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (additive)

adjective:  (mathematics) Pertaining to addition; that can be, or has been, added.
adjective:  (mathematics, of a function, etc.) That is distributive over addition.
adjective:  (group theory, of a group, semigroup, etc.) Whose operator is identified as addition.
adjective:  (chemistry) Pertaining to chemical addition.
adjective:  (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.
noun:  A substance added to another substance or product to produce specific properties in the combined substance.
noun:  (grammar) A word or phrase that adds something, such as also, even, or nor.

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