Additive in a sentence as a noun

People who are additive to revenue aren't cheap but they are, well, additive to revenue.

Another poster was spot-on when he said that this is basically hacked additive synthesis that's precisely the joy of it!

Synthol was made from alcohol, benzene and a metallic additive either tetraethyl lead or iron carbonyl.

There are changes to the router behavior that could have an additive effect with apps running Unicorn/Puma/etc, and we'll continue to look into those.

Additive in a sentence as an adjective

Understand the elegantly designed stylesheet and carefully refactor it, or just go for the additive approach?

It should be very plain to anybody implementing or using a rendering engine that pixels are intended to be linearly additive.

Since the author wanted to talk about the eye, they should have kept to additive colour only and not tried to be confusing by introducing subtractive colour, which they neither understand or present factually.

When I ordered a set of three foot-long chicken parmesan sandwiches from Subway a few weeks ago, the guy behind the counter said, "Because prime numbers are fundamentally connected with multiplication, understanding their additive properties can be tricky.

Additive definitions

noun

something added to enhance food or gasoline or paint or medicine

adjective

designating or involving an equation whose terms are of the first degree

See also: linear

adjective

characterized or produced by addition; "an additive process"