Talk:additive

what does "additive behavior" means? i got this from my Psychology class?

Sure you don't mean "addictive behavior"? Kappa 05:36, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

See w:adaptive behavior SemperBlotto 08:35, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

The following discussion has been moved from Wiktionary:Requests for cleanup.

This discussion is no longer live and is left here as an archive. Please do not modify this conversation, but feel free to discuss its conclusions.

---

additive

1. (mathematics) Proper to be added; positive; -- opposed to subtractive.

I have no idea what this means. Anyone?​—msh210℠ (talk) 20:45, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

I think it means 'suitable to be added', but like you say, hard to tell. I assume not added by a native English speaker. Mglovesfun (talk) 11:17, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

• Cleaned (rewritten/merged with following sense). Ƿidsiþ 11:39, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Missing grammatical sense

There is a missing grammatical sense: some languages have an "additive case" (e.g. Veps). Equinox ◑ 18:53, 10 July 2013 (UTC)