addition

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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

Process of adding

Nouns

1. (act of adding) addition, increase, expansion, annexation, accession; corollary, concomitant (See accompaniment). See sequence, junction, auxiliary.

2. (something added) adjunct; affix, prefix, suffix; appendix, insertion, postscript, epilogue, addendum, supplement, attachment, appendage; extension, annex, wing, add-on; rider, codicil; flap, tab, tag; bonus; grace period; bells and whistles; additive.

3. (mathematics) plus [sign], addend, sum, total, subtotal; adding machine, calculator, abacus. See numeration, computers.

Verbs — add, affix, annex, superimpose, append, subjoin, figure in; tack on; compute, sum, foot, total, tot(e) up. Informal, hitch on.

Adjectives — added, etc.; additive, cumulative; supplementary, additional, another, further, extra, more; auxiliary, ancillary; surplus.

Adverbs — in addition, again, more, plus, extra, besides, also, too, at that, and then some, et cetera, etc., to boot, as well, into the bargain, for good measure, over and above, and so forth, and so on, moreover, furthermore; by the way, by the bye, on the side, in passing. Informal, and what not, and what have you, and all that jazz.

Prepositions — apart from, aside from; together with, let alone, not to mention, much less, not to speak of, to say nothing of, as well as.

Conjunctions — and, also, in addition to being.

Antonyms, See deduction.

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(Roget's IV) n.

1. [The process of adding]

Syn. reckoning, computing, totaling, summing up, summation, enlarging, accruing, increasing, expanding, tabuLating, counting, accretion, joining, uniting, appending, annexing.

Ant. subtraction, reduction*, lessening.

2. [That which has been added]

Syn. interest, raise, additive, adjunct, augmentation, addendum, profit, profits, dividend, dividends, bonus, commission, increment, supplement, gain, insert, accretion, accession, accrual, subordinate part, enhancement, aggrandizement, reinforcement, appendage, appendix, accessory, appurtenance, attachment, extension, increase, annex, affix, appreciation.

Ant. loss*, reduction*, shrinkage.

3. [An architectural extension]

Syn. wing, ell, annex, spare room, extension; see also room 2 .

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(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.

1. tallying summation, calculation, tabulation, reckoning, computation, counting.

2. augmentation addendum, add-on, attachment, extension, increase, supplement, adjunct, annex.

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(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun 1. The act or process of adding: summation, totalization. See INCREASE. 2. Something tending to augment something else: accession, acquisition, augmentation. See INCREASE.