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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"
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



... by Austria reads: The Royal Government regrets that Serbian officers and functionaries ... have participated.... Also with this formula and the further addition 'according to the declaration of the Imperial and Royal Government,' the Serbian Government pursues the object, already indicated above, to preserve a ...
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... absorb Turkey; and means to grant Italy to Austria; Belgium, and the Rhenish provinces to France; and the rest of Germany to Prussia. The Czar, acting like the Persian Kings of old when they sent garments of honour to their satraps, flings in the addition of a few provinces of ...
— Select Speeches of Kossuth • Kossuth
... woman of sound sense and fit for matters of moment.' Then said he to the barber-cupper, 'Verily, thou hast shown worth and generosity which call for extraordinary honour.' So he commanded the trooper's house and all that was therein to be given him and bestowed on him a dress of honour and in addition fifteen thousand dinars to be paid annually. And men tell ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 4 • Richard F. Burton
... continued, by that sharp venom that lies in the tongue of the sex, to incite still more the intense resentment of her lord. Perhaps some female jealousies of Aldyth might contribute to increase her own indignation. But without such frivolous addition to anger, there was cause eno' in this marriage thoroughly to complete the alienation between the King and his brother. It was impossible that one so revengeful as Tostig should not cherish the deepest ...
— Harold, Complete - The Last Of The Saxon Kings • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... LINNAEUS, however, has his doubts as to its being a species distinct from the vesca, and, in our humble opinion, not without reason; for it can certainly be regarded as a very singular variety only; its origin indeed is a proof of this; in addition to which we may observe, that plants raised from the runners will sometimes, though very rarely indeed, have three leaves instead of one: and it is observed by the very intelligent author of the Hist. nat. abovementioned, ...
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