addition
ad·di·tion
noun \ə-ˈdi-shən, a-\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
See Examples of ADDITION
- The children learned addition and subtraction.
- The museum's collection includes several new additions.
Origin of ADDITION
addicion Anglo-French, from Latin addition-, additio, from addere
First Known Use: 14th century
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
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