noun
pl. -·den′da- a thing added or to be added
- an appendix or supplement to a book, etc.
- the part of a gear tooth that projects beyond the pitch circle, or the distance that it projects
Origin of addendum
L, gerund, gerundive of addere, add
noun
The definition of an addendum is something additional or something that is added, especially to the end of a book.
An example of the word addendum is when a legal document is written and an extra piece of information is added later.
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addendum
noun
pl. ad·den·da,Something added or to be added, especially a supplement to a book.
Origin of addendum
Latin neuter gerundive of addere to add ; see add .THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural addenda or addendums)
- Something to be added; especially text added as an appendix or supplement to a document.
- A postscript.
- (engineering) The height by which the tooth of a gear projects beyond (outside for external, or inside for internal) the standard pitch circle or pitch line.
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From the gerundive of Latin addere (“to add”).
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addendum - Legal Definition
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An addition to a document.
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Sentence Examples
- I learned that "Murphy's Law" has a little known but very important addendum.
- The replacing of the sequel of Amos (q.v.) by one which presupposes a later historical background, the addendum to the prophecy against Moab (Isa.
- The radius of the pitch-circle of a wheel is called the geometrical radius; a circle touching the ends of the teeth is called the addendum circle, and its radius the real radius; the difference between these radii, being the projection of the teeth beyond the pitch-surface, is called the addendum.
- He appears to have joined the Homoean party, which took shape and acquired influence before the council of Constantinople in 360, where he adhered with the rest of the council to the creed of Ariminum, with the addendum that in future the terms inroTTao-cs and oucla should be excluded from Christological definitions.
- In practice it is usual to make the path of contact somewhat longer, viz, about 2.4 times the pitch; and with this length of path, and the obliquity already mentioned of 143/4, the addendum is about 3~I of the pitch.
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