ETYM French addition, Latin additio, from addere to add.
1. A component that is added to something to improve it; SYN. improver.
2. A quantity that is added; SYN. increase, gain.
3. A suburban area laid out in streets and lots for a future residential area.
4. The act of adding one thing to another.
In arithmetic, the operation of combining two numbers to form a sum; thus, 7 + 4 = 11. It is one of the four basic operations of arithmetic (the others are subtraction, multiplication, and division).
ETYM Cf. French annexation. Related to Annex.
Incorporation by annexation; SYN. appropriation.
ETYM Latin appositio, from apponere: cf. French apposition. Related to Apposite.
Juxtaposition; Grammar, putting two nouns or phrases together as attributive or adjunct terms; relationship of such nouns or phrases.
In grammar, the placing of a noun or noun phrase next to another that refers to the same thing (“We’ll take the easiest route, the east ridge, to the top”). The word or phrase in apposition is marked off from its antecedent (to which it refers) by a pair of commas.
A grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows.