Additive
noun
A substance added to something in small amounts to improve or preserve it.
This oil has no artificial additives.
Often appears as...
- additive effect
- food additive
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Technical
adjective
Relating to or resulting from addition.
The radiation has an additive effect.
Often appears as...
- additive relationship
- additive impact
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Academic
noun
A substance added to something in small amounts to improve or preserve it.
This oil has no artificial additives.
Often appears as...
- additive effect
- food additive
Usage tips
Technical
adjective
Relating to or resulting from addition.
The radiation has an additive effect.
Often appears as...
- additive relationship
- additive impact
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Not Always Safe
Some additives are controversial or harmful, despite being common in foods and products.
Despite being a common food additive, MSG has been subject to health debates.
Pro Tip 2/3Preservation Role
Additives often help products last longer by preventing spoilage or maintaining quality.
Salt is an additive that has been used for centuries to preserve meat.
Pro Tip 3/3Enhancing Taste
Flavor enhancers are additives that make food taste better without changing its structure.
Vanilla extract is an additive that gives ice cream its distinct flavor.
Pro Tip 1/3Not Always Safe
Some additives are controversial or harmful, despite being common in foods and products.
Despite being a common food additive, MSG has been subject to health debates.
Pro Tip 2/3Preservation Role
Additives often help products last longer by preventing spoilage or maintaining quality.
Salt is an additive that has been used for centuries to preserve meat.
Pro Tip 3/3Enhancing Taste
Flavor enhancers are additives that make food taste better without changing its structure.
Vanilla extract is an additive that gives ice cream its distinct flavor.
Pro Tip 1/3Not Always Safe
Some additives are controversial or harmful, despite being common in foods and products.
Despite being a common food additive, MSG has been subject to health debates.
Pro Tip 2/3Preservation Role
Additives often help products last longer by preventing spoilage or maintaining quality.
Salt is an additive that has been used for centuries to preserve meat.
Pro Tip 3/3Enhancing Taste
Flavor enhancers are additives that make food taste better without changing its structure.
Vanilla extract is an additive that gives ice cream its distinct flavor.
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Giving a voice to young...
wherever we are the most important thing for us is to be active citizens no matter where we are to have an opinion to take a stand and for the causes that you believe in you as an additive individual have an amazing power to change things you have a voice and we have an obligation not to take our freedom for granted because there's because there's still so many people
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Ed Ulbrich: How Benjamin...
We realized that prosthetic makeup just wouldn't hold up, particularly in close-up. And makeup is an additive process. You have to build the face up. And David wanted to carve deeply into Brad's face to bring the aging to this character. He needed to be a very sympathetic character.
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Why is NASA sending a...
with other planetesimals that knocked off the rocky crust until only the core remained. Experiencing that many destructive collisions with no additive ones in between is statistically very unlikely, making Psyche an amazingly rare opportunity to study an exposed metallic core.
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Vermicomposting: How...
only to small worm bins, it's an emerging entrepreneurial enterprise. Large-scale facilities convert bulk organic waste and even manure into rich, black castings called black gold. Its value as a soil additive is unparalleled, and it can help plants resist harmful pathogens.
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Inside Bud's Beer...
this handy additive is closely related to the flowers of the marijuana plant but hops are not responsible for beers intoxicating effect for that anheuser-busch still needs to employ trillions of tiny specially skilled workers to do the most important job in the brewery
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How Benjamin Button got...
actor to actor and we've been ruled out the idea of using makeup we realized that prosthetic makeup just wouldn't hold particularly in close-up and makeup is an additive process you have to build the face up and David one to carve deeply into Brad's face to bring the
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What is MSG, and is it...
it could be found in commercial food production worldwide. So when Dr. Kwok's letter was published, the outrage was immediate. Researchers and citizens demanded a scientific enquiry into the popular additive. On one hand, this wasn’t unreasonable.
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Computing with fluids PIPE...
which is this idea that in our world we're stuck with two ways of making things there is the subtractive you can take a chisel in chisel of a matter and you can build stuff and the exciting and 3d printer base additive assembly where
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Love, no matter what PIPE...
And I don't accept subtractive models of love, only additive ones. And I believe that in the same way that we need species diversity to ensure that the planet can go on, so we need this diversity of affection and diversity of family
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Creating a Bio-Industrial...
few weeks a tough tough ceramic is created we use a lot of high heats a lot of pressure chemicals that's why we need razor-wire life is additive this term additive manufacturing life builds to shape we
Video examples
Giving a voice to young...
wherever we are the most important thing for us is to be active citizens no matter where we are to have an opinion to take a stand and for the causes that you believe in you as an additive individual have an amazing power to change things you have a voice and we have an obligation not to take our freedom for granted because there's because there's still so many people
Video examples
Ed Ulbrich: How Benjamin...
We realized that prosthetic makeup just wouldn't hold up, particularly in close-up. And makeup is an additive process. You have to build the face up. And David wanted to carve deeply into Brad's face to bring the aging to this character. He needed to be a very sympathetic character.
Video examples
Why is NASA sending a...
with other planetesimals that knocked off the rocky crust until only the core remained. Experiencing that many destructive collisions with no additive ones in between is statistically very unlikely, making Psyche an amazingly rare opportunity to study an exposed metallic core.
Video examples
Vermicomposting: How...
only to small worm bins, it's an emerging entrepreneurial enterprise. Large-scale facilities convert bulk organic waste and even manure into rich, black castings called black gold. Its value as a soil additive is unparalleled, and it can help plants resist harmful pathogens.
Video examples
Inside Bud's Beer...
this handy additive is closely related to the flowers of the marijuana plant but hops are not responsible for beers intoxicating effect for that anheuser-busch still needs to employ trillions of tiny specially skilled workers to do the most important job in the brewery
Video examples
How Benjamin Button got...
actor to actor and we've been ruled out the idea of using makeup we realized that prosthetic makeup just wouldn't hold particularly in close-up and makeup is an additive process you have to build the face up and David one to carve deeply into Brad's face to bring the
Video examples
What is MSG, and is it...
it could be found in commercial food production worldwide. So when Dr. Kwok's letter was published, the outrage was immediate. Researchers and citizens demanded a scientific enquiry into the popular additive. On one hand, this wasn’t unreasonable.
Video examples
Computing with fluids PIPE...
which is this idea that in our world we're stuck with two ways of making things there is the subtractive you can take a chisel in chisel of a matter and you can build stuff and the exciting and 3d printer base additive assembly where
Video examples
Love, no matter what PIPE...
And I don't accept subtractive models of love, only additive ones. And I believe that in the same way that we need species diversity to ensure that the planet can go on, so we need this diversity of affection and diversity of family
Video examples
Creating a Bio-Industrial...
few weeks a tough tough ceramic is created we use a lot of high heats a lot of pressure chemicals that's why we need razor-wire life is additive this term additive manufacturing life builds to shape we
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Clay Shirky
American Writer
The difference between what all the people can do individually and the global consumption of nonrenewable resources is huge. The tension is... what will it take to get people to act in concert? There isn't any additive solution to the problem. It will be both governmental and social because that's the scale of the problem.
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Keith Maitland
American Actor
The amazing thing about rotoscoping is that it's very malleable. Unlike green screen, where the computer subtracts out the background, rotoscoping is an additive technology in that you don't take anything away from the footage - you add layers on top of it.
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Tim Ryan
American Politician
You beat China by outcompeting them, by dominating the new technologies: wind, solar, electric vehicles, artificial intelligence, additive manufacturing. We should be reinvesting back in the United States and beating them on the economic playing field.
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Tom Chatfield
British Author
Even when they're not causing injury, human-controlled cars are often driven inefficiently, ineptly, antisocially, or in other ways additive to the sum of human misery.
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Satya Nadella
American Businessman
Bottom line, we will continue to innovate and grow our fan base with Xbox while also creating additive business value for Microsoft.
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Paul Sparks
American Actor
I think of myself as more additive than initially creative; I don't come up with the stories.
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Clay Shirky
American Writer
The difference between what all the people can do individually and the global consumption of nonrenewable resources is huge. The tension is... what will it take to get people to act in concert? There isn't any additive solution to the problem. It will be both governmental and social because that's the scale of the problem.
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Keith Maitland
American Actor
The amazing thing about rotoscoping is that it's very malleable. Unlike green screen, where the computer subtracts out the background, rotoscoping is an additive technology in that you don't take anything away from the footage - you add layers on top of it.
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Tim Ryan
American Politician
You beat China by outcompeting them, by dominating the new technologies: wind, solar, electric vehicles, artificial intelligence, additive manufacturing. We should be reinvesting back in the United States and beating them on the economic playing field.
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Tom Chatfield
British Author
Even when they're not causing injury, human-controlled cars are often driven inefficiently, ineptly, antisocially, or in other ways additive to the sum of human misery.
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Satya Nadella
American Businessman
Bottom line, we will continue to innovate and grow our fan base with Xbox while also creating additive business value for Microsoft.
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Paul Sparks
American Actor
I think of myself as more additive than initially creative; I don't come up with the stories.
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