additive Definition
ad·di·tive (ad′ə tiv)
noun
a substance added to another in small quantities to produce a desired effect, as a preservative added to food or an antiknock added to gasoline
additive Usage Examples
Converse of object
- contain: The E numbers are helpful to these people because they can easily see whether the food contains an additive to which they are allergic.
- permit: A second report 2 was published in 1979, including a first list of permitted tobacco additives.
Preposition: in
gasoline: A NAFTA ruling last year requiring Canada to accept a new additive in gasoline is another.
Adjective modifier
- zootechnical: Action: The Secretariat to provide an information paper on zootechnical additives.
- artificial: Contrary to popular belief, no artificial additives are used in the freezing process.
- medicinal: Under the Regulations all medicinal feed additives had to be licensed.
- harmful: This is the most effective protection against freezing without the use of harmful chemical additives.
- synthetic: Most products contain chemicals, synthetic additives and irritants which dry our children's skin and are absorbed into their bodies.
- ep: Contains no EP additives which can damage gearboxes containing yellow metals.
Modifies a noun
- masterbatches: New color and additive masterbatches are introduced for plastics processors.
- bilingualism: Additive bilingualism is becoming a reality through the highly successful development of Gaelic medium education throughout Scotland.
- inverse: The additive inverse of any number is a unique number.
- magma: Note that not every trivial additive magma is an additive magma-with-zero, but every trivial additive magma-with-zero is an additive group.
- synthesis: Hammond organs and similar instruments make the most use of simple additive synthesis.
Noun used with modifier
- silage: No silage additives have been used for the last five years.
- polymer: That's a bigger risk, polymer additive in my view.
- feed: Feed additives are added to animal feed during the manufacturing process.
- food: Some food additives are taken by patients with RA.
- chemical: Examples are heat, pressure, light, or a chemical additive.
- tobacco: Over 600 tobacco additives are permitted in the UK.
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