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0 a substance that is added to food in order to improve its taste or appearance or to keep it fresh and stop it from decaying:
1 relating to or involving addition (= the process of adding numbers together):
The strategy is applicable to single-winner voting systems that are additive point systems.
Creating colours on a screen is an additive process, in which the primary colours are red, green, and blue.
Jenkins predicted a powerful additive effect might occur when these cholesterol-lowering foods are combined.
RA is an additive polyarthritis. This means that it affects more joints as time passes.
2 something added to a substance, esp. food, to improve it or to preserve it: