First Known Use: 14th century
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addition
noun ad·di·tion \ə-ˈdi-shən, a-\
: the act or process of joining something to something else : the act or process of adding something
mathematics : the act or process of adding numbers
: something or someone more that is included : something or someone that is added
Full Definition of ADDITION
1
: a part added (as to a building or residential section)
3
: the act or process of adding; especially : the operation of combining numbers so as to obtain an equivalent simple quantity
4
: direct chemical combination of substances into a single product
— in addition to
: combined or associated with : 1besides 2
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Origin of ADDITION
addicion Anglo-French, from Latin addition-, additio, from addere
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Rhymes with ADDITION
admission, ambition, attrition, audition, beautician, clinician, cognition, coition, commission, condition, contrition, demission, dentition, dismission, Domitian, edition, emission, ethician, fruition, ignition, Kittitian, lenition, logician, magician, Mauritian, monition, mortician, munition, musician, nutrition, omission, optician, partition, patrician, perdition, permission, petition, Phoenician, physician, Politian, position, punition, remission, rendition, sedition, submission, suspicion, tactician, technician, tradition, transition, transmission, tuition, volition
ADDITION Defined for Kids
addition
noun ad·di·tion \ə-ˈdi-shən\
Definition of ADDITION for Kids
1
: the act or process of adding numbers to obtain their sum
2
: something added <an addition to a house>
— in addition
: as something more
— in addition to
: along with or together with <There was ice cream in addition to cake and pie.>
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