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Antonyms for additive
ˈæd ɪ tɪvad·di·tive
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term additive.
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additivenoun
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subtractiveadditiveadjective
Pertaining to addition; that can be, or has been, added.
Oil may be used as an additive in gasoline to improve the lubrication of a small engine.
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subtractiveadditiveadjective
Matrix multiplication is additive in that .
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subtractiveadditiveadjective
It is natural to look at a finite cyclic group as an additive group.
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subtractiveadditiveadjective
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subtractiveadditiveadjective
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subtractive
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Princeton's WordNet
additiveadjective
something added to enhance food or gasoline or paint or medicine
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reductive, subtractive, ablativelinear, additiveadjective
designating or involving an equation whose terms are of the first degree
Antonyms:
ablative, subtractive, reductiveSynonyms:
analogue, elongate, analog, linear, running(a), one-dimensionaladditiveadjective
characterized or produced by addition
"an additive process"
Antonyms:
ablative, subtractive, reductiveSynonyms:
linear
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There are all kinds of potential applications that Curran can be used for, it can go into things like paint and coatings, it can go into concrete, cosmetics. It can even be used for drilling fluids, as an additive to go into your food, and go into composites. So you can imagine one day airplane wings made from Curran.
I went to the President and made clear to him that Inspector General Linick wasn't performing a function in a way that we had tried to get Inspector General Linick to, that was additive for the State Department, very consistent with what the statute says he's supposed to be doing, the kinds of activities he's supposed to undertake to make us better, to improve us.
It has an additive benefit that shouldn't be discounted or looked down upon because an academic study says this won't reduce crime by' x' percentage points, but we know for an absolute fact that guns are used in suicides, in homicides, and of course shootings. Those things, taking that weapon out of a place it's unwanted and unused, giving people a responsible method for disposing of it, have a benefit.
Curran is a material that is derived from nanocellulose particles - root vegetables, now when you get down to that very, very small size you actually get incredible strength properties. So when we put the resulting product that we have into other products, as an additive that goes into other products, it actually adds strength to those products, as well as adding viscosity, and there is no other product that will do both things at the same time.
[Oil] this low should be very additive to economic activity, not just with gas prices but across the economy, early holiday shopping numbers should come in pretty strong.
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#17128 | additive | |
#64168 | reductive | |
#93056 | subtractive | |
#100051 | ablative |
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