Addition əˈdɪʃn Extra Examples Noun Technologies Fairly Recent

• all of these technologies are fairly recent additions.
• the latest addition to our range of cars
• this is a welcome addition to the literature of western art history.
• add salt, tasting with every addition.

addition

1. a thing that is added to something else
• All of these technologies are fairly recent additions.
• the latest addition to our range of cars
• This is a welcome addition to the literature of western art history.

Extra Examples

• an addition to the family (= another child)
• last minute additions to the government’s package of proposals
• We have made several additions to the collection recently.
2. the act of adding something to something else
• Add salt, tasting with every addition.
• Pasta's basic ingredients are flour and water, sometimes with the addition of eggs or oil.
3. a new part that is added to a building
• architects who specialize in home additions
• The addition should match the architecture of the house.

Extra Examples

• a 22 000-square-foot addition designed by a Japanese architect
• a family-room addition to his home
4. the process of adding two or more numbers together to find their total
• OPPOSITE subtraction
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/subtraction
• children learning addition and subtraction

Extra Examples

• He worked it out through simple addition.
• She can do addition, but she hasn't learned subtraction yet.
5. used when you want to mention another person or thing after something else
• In addition to these arrangements, extra ambulances will be on duty until midnight.
• There is, in addition, one further point to make.

Word Origin

• late Middle English: from Latin additio(n-), from the verb addere, from ad- ‘to’ + the base of dare ‘put’.