additive
Pertaining to addition; that can be, or has been, added.
Other meanings
That is distributive over addition.
“Matrix multiplication is additive, in that M\vec v+M\vec w=M(\vec v+\vec w).”
Whose operator is identified as addition.
“It is natural to look at a finite cyclic group as an additive group.”
Related words
- additively
- additiveness
- additivism
- adele
- cycloadditive
- geoadditive
- heteroadditive
- hypoadditive
- interadditive
- nonadditive
- protoadditive
- subadditive
Word history
From Latin "addere" (to add).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “additive” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.