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Additive: Propellant ingredient used to enhance physical or ballistic properties.

Additive Color: In video, the combination of red, green and blue phosphors to generate all other colors.

Food Additives: Any substance or mixture of substances other than the basic foodstuff present in a food as a result of any phase of production, processing, packaging, storage, transport or handling. USDA al . . . View Full Definition

Additive Monster: In contrast with the composite monster, mythologists and folklorists use the label additive monster to describe a creature from mythology or legend that has an altered number of body parts r . . . View Full Definition

Additive Synthesis: Method of producing full-color images by mixing light of the three primary color wavelengths, blue, green and red.

Additive Genetic Effects: When the combined effects of alleles at different loci are equal to the sum of their individual effects.

Additive Printing: Color printing method which produces an image by giving three separate exposures, each filtered to one of the three primary color wavelengths, blue, green and red.

Additive Meter: Groupings of irregular numbers of beats that add up to a larger, overall pattern (2 + 3 + 2 + 3 = 10).

Additive Effect: A biologic response to exposure to multiple substances that equals the sum of responses of all the individual substances added together [compare with antagonistic effect and synergistic effect].

Primary Colors: Red, yellow, and blue, the mixture of which will yield all other colors in the spectrum but which themselves cannot be produced through a mixture of other colors.