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additive
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additive

In foods, any of various chemical substances added to produce desirable effects. Additives include such substances as artificial or natural colourings and flavourings; stabilizers, emulsifiers, and thickeners; preservatives and humectants (moisture-retainers); and supplementary nutrients. Though many additives are harmless or even beneficial, others reduce nutritional value or conceal inferior raw materials or processing.

additive [′ad·əd·iv]
(materials)
A substance added to another to strengthen or otherwise alter it for the purpose of improving the performance of the finished product.
admixture
(mathematics)
Pertaining to addition.
(statistics)
That property of a process in which increments of the dependent variable are independent for nonoverlapping intervals of the independent variable.
(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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