Additive

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1.

(Math.) Proper to be added; positive; - opposed to subtractive.

Noun	1.	additive - something added to enhance food or gasoline or paint or medicine
Adj.	1.	additive - characterized or produced by addition; "an additive process" Antonyms: subtractive - constituting or involving subtraction; "a subtractive correction"
	2.	additive - designating or involving an equation whose terms are of the first degree Synonyms: linear

(mathematics)

additive - A function f : X -> Y is additive if for all Z <= X f (lub Z) = lub { f z : z in Z } (f "preserves lubs"). All additive functions defined over cpos are continuous. ("<=" is written in LaTeX as \subseteq, "lub" as \sqcup ).

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