addition
The act of adding anything.
Example
“The addition of five more items to the agenda will make the meeting unbearably long.”
Other meanings
Anything that is added.
The arithmetic operation of adding.
Synonyms
- add-on
A kind of
- component
Kinds of addition
- additive
- extension
- attachment
Related words
- additionary
- additionist
- coaddition
- cycloaddition
- gyroaddition
- heteroaddition
- isoaddition
- misaddition
- nonaddition
- photoaddition
- polyaddition
- readdition
Word history
From Latin "additiōnem".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “addition” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.