Is that in the additive or subtractive color model?
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Additive
//ˈæd.ɪ.tɪv//
Synonyms for "additive" (59 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (12)
Strong matches (18)
Related words (29)
Related word relations
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More general
3 entriesAntonyms
1 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
1 entriescoordinate
2 entriesderived
29 entriesShowing 16 of 29 words.
derived from
1 entrieshas context
5 entriesis a
2 entriesrelated to
13 entriessimilar
26 entriesShowing 16 of 26 words.
Translations
50 translations across 26 languages.
Asturian
1 entries- aditivu noun (substance added to another substance to produce certain properties)
Bulgarian
1 entries- доба́вка noun (substance added to another substance to produce certain properties)
Catalan
1 entries- additiu noun (substance added to another substance to produce certain properties)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 添加劑 /添加剂 noun (substance added to another substance to produce certain properties)
Czech
1 entries- aditivum noun (substance added to another substance to produce certain properties)
Danish
4 entries- additiv adj (math: that can be added)
- additiv noun (substance added to another substance to produce certain properties)
- tilsætning noun (substance added to another substance to produce certain properties)
- tilsætningsstof noun (substance added to another substance to produce certain properties)
Esperanto
1 entries- aldonaĵo noun (substance added to another substance to produce certain properties)
Estonian
1 entries- lisaaine noun (substance added to another substance to produce certain properties)
Finnish
3 entries- additiivinen adj (math: that can be added)
- additiivinen adj (math: that is distributive over addition)
- lisäaine noun (substance added to another substance to produce certain properties)
French
2 entries- additif adj (math: that is distributive over addition)
- additif noun (substance added to another substance to produce certain properties)
Galician
1 entries- aditivo noun (substance added to another substance to produce certain properties)
German
3 entries- Additiv noun (substance added to another substance to produce certain properties)
- Zusatz noun (substance added to another substance to produce certain properties)
- Zusatzstoff noun (substance added to another substance to produce certain properties)
Hebrew
1 entries- תּוֹסָף noun (substance added to another substance to produce certain properties)
Hungarian
2 entries- adalék noun (substance added to another substance to produce certain properties)
- adalékanyag noun (substance added to another substance to produce certain properties)
Italian
1 entries- additivo noun (substance added to another substance to produce certain properties)
Japanese
1 entries- 添加剤 noun (substance added to another substance to produce certain properties)
Māori
1 entries- tāpiripiri adj (math: that can be added)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- tilsetning noun (substance added to another substance to produce certain properties)
- tilsetningsstoff noun (substance added to another substance to produce certain properties)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- tilsetjingsstoff noun (substance added to another substance to produce certain properties)
- tilsetning noun (substance added to another substance to produce certain properties)
Persian
2 entries- ادیتیو noun (substance added to another substance to produce certain properties)
- افزودنی noun (substance added to another substance to produce certain properties)
Polish
4 entries- addytywny adj (math: that can be added)
- addytywny adj (math: that is distributive over addition)
- addytywny adj (genetics)
- dodatek noun (substance added to another substance to produce certain properties)
Portuguese
1 entries- aditivo noun (substance added to another substance to produce certain properties)
Russian
4 entries- аддити́вный adj (math: that can be added)
- доба́вка noun (substance added to another substance to produce certain properties)
- добавле́ние noun (substance added to another substance to produce certain properties)
- дополне́ние noun (substance added to another substance to produce certain properties)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- dodátak noun (substance added to another substance to produce certain properties)
- pridodatak noun (substance added to another substance to produce certain properties)
- prȋmjesa noun (substance added to another substance to produce certain properties)
- дода́так noun (substance added to another substance to produce certain properties)
Spanish
1 entries- aditivo noun (substance added to another substance to produce certain properties)
Swedish
1 entries- tillsats noun (substance added to another substance to produce certain properties)
Sample sentences
10 total sentences available.
He turned to his orange juice sullenly, sneering that every little additive would sign him up for experiments he wanted no part in.
Source: tatoeba (754821)
Additive synthesis involves manually controlling harmonics, and uses only sine waves.
Source: tatoeba (754822)
This food additive is toxic.
Source: tatoeba (6854316)
Showing 4 of 10 available sentences.
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