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Additive vs Ingredient - What's the difference?

additive | ingredient |

As nouns the difference between additive and ingredient

is that additive is a substance added to another substance or product for its ability to alter its properties while ingredient is one of the substances present in a mixture.

As an adjective additive

is pertaining to addition; that can be, or has been, added.

additive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (mathematics) Pertaining to addition; that can be, or has been, added.
  • over addition.
    • Matrix multiplication is additive in that M\vec v+M\vec w=M(\vec v+\vec w).
  • (algebra) Having addition as an operator.
    • It is natural to look at a finite cyclic group as an additive group.
  • (chemistry) Pertaining to chemical addition.
  • (genetics) Describing genes (or the interaction etc. of such genes) which govern the same trait and whose effects work together on the phenotype.

    • Antonyms

    * subtractive

    Derived terms

    * additive function * additive inverse * additive identity * additive group * additive color

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A substance added to another substance or product for its ability to alter its properties.
    • Oil may be used as an additive in gasoline to improve the lubrication of a small engine.
  • (grammar) A word or phrase that adds something, such as also'', ''even'', or ''nor .

    • External links

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    ingredient

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One of the substances present in a mixture.
  • * Sir Isaac Newton
    • By way of analysis we may proceed from compounds to ingredients .
  • * Arbuthnot
    • Water is the chief ingredient in all the animal fluids and solids.

    Holonyms

    * mixture

    Related terms

    * ingress

    External links

    * (wikipedia "ingredient") * * ----