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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



... prayers do men allow themselves! That which they call a holy office is not so much as brave and manly. Prayer looks abroad and asks for some foreign addition to come through some foreign virtue, and loses itself in endless mazes of natural and supernatural, and mediatorial and miraculous. Prayer that craves a particular commodity, any thing less than all good, is vicious. ...
— Essays, First Series • Ralph Waldo Emerson

... granted and to be rather hard on Nina; besides, it reminded me unpleasantly of those advertisements for servants which end up, "No followers allowed," and which, I should think, are a great waste of money. In addition to this bother which I manufactured more or less for myself, I had another trouble which did not worry so much because I understood it better. Mrs. Faulkner had told my mother, quite privately, that I was in her opinion ...
— Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate • Charles Turley

... usual, and passed the Swan Inn, where Scott used to go daily to get a draught of liquor when he was visiting Wordsworth, who had no wine nor other inspiriting fluid in his house. It stands directly on the wayside, a small, whitewashed house, with an addition in the rear that seems to have been built since Scott's time. On the door is the painted sign of a swan,—and the name "Scott's Swan Hotel." I walked a considerable distance beyond it; but a shower coming up, I turned back, entered the inn, and, following the mistress into a snug little ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. • Various

... performed a jubilee chorus on combs, and tin kettles played like tambourines; the boys celebrated their victories with shrill whistles, and a drum accompaniment with fists on the shed walls. Billy brought his drum, and this was such an addition that Sam hunted up an old one of his little brother's, in order that he might join the drum corps. He had no sticks, however, and, casting about in his mind for a good substitute for the genuine thing, bethought ...
— St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, September 1878, No. 11 • Various

... manufactured one grade, but out of different cereals or vegetables, was put up in one-gallon bottles and sold at one dollar a gallon. Beer was sold in five-gallon kegs at one dollar a keg, but the purchaser of beer had to pay in addition for the keg, which was refunded when he returned the keg in good condition. The Government manufactured pure liquors and no foreign ...
— Eurasia • Christopher Evans


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