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Addition   /ədˈɪʃən/   Listen
Addition

noun
1.
A component that is added to something to improve it.  Synonyms: add-on, improver.  "The addition of cinnamon improved the flavor"
2.
The act of adding one thing to another.  "The addition of a leap day every four years"  Antonym: subtraction.
3.
A quantity that is added.  Synonyms: gain, increase.  "They recorded the cattle's gain in weight over a period of weeks"
4.
Something added to what you already have.  Synonym: accession.  "He was a new addition to the staff"
5.
A suburban area laid out in streets and lots for a future residential area.
6.
The arithmetic operation of summing; calculating the sum of two or more numbers.  Synonyms: plus, summation.  "Four plus three equals seven"



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"Addition" Quotes from Famous Books



... a few words on the subject of those miniatures which are not easily accessible to the layman, but reproductions of which are frequently met with in books on the history of art. In addition to religious subjects, the whole courtly company which lives and breathes in the legends of the Round Table, kings and knights, poets, minstrels, and fair damsels, hawking, jousting, banqueting and playing chess, everything which stirred the poet's imagination, is depicted. The spirit ...
— The Evolution of Love • Emil Lucka

... that, in addition to the permission given for the embarcation of cloth and silver, permission be given for two hundred and fifty thousand pesos more; for if they are prevented from sending more than the amount conceded, the royal treasury is defrauded out of ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 • Various

... Sambo was not his proper name, but his master, regarding him as being the embodiment of all the excellent qualities that could by any possibility exist in the person of a South Sea islander, had bestowed upon him the generic name of the dark race, in addition to that wherewith Mr Mason had gifted him on the day of ...
— Gascoyne, the Sandal-Wood Trader • R.M. Ballantyne

... no other than a woman. You are right. The lady who had excited it was advancing in a quadrille, some ten yards from her admirer. She was very young; that is to say, she had, perhaps, added a year or two to sweet seventeen, an addition which, while it does not deprive the sex of the early grace of girlhood, adorns them with that indefinable dignity which is necessary to constitute a perfect woman. She was not tall, but as she moved forward displayed a figure so exquisitely symmetrical ...
— The Young Duke • Benjamin Disraeli

... interest to note how the nervous and agile fingers, accustomed to sovereign rule over the keys, handle the pen; how the musician feels as a man; how he estimates art and artists. Liszt is a man of extensive culture, vivid imagination, and great knowledge of the world; and, in addition to their high artistic value, his lines glow with poetic fervor, with impassioned eloquence. His musical criticisms are refined and acute, but without repulsive technicalities or scientific terms, ever sparkling with the poetic ardor of the generous ...
— Life of Chopin • Franz Liszt


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