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  1. noun The act or process of adding, especially the process of computing with sets of numbers so as to find their sum.
  2. noun Something added, such as a room or section appended to a building.
  3. idiom in addition Also; as well.
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  • Unless my addition is at fault, you might have seduced me the other day, and won your wager. —  Chase, Loretta - Knave's Wager
  • If Cooper has given to Indian conversation more poetry than it is thought to possess, or to Indian character more virtue, the addition has been a gain to literature, whatever it may have been to truth. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of James Fenimore Cooper by Thomas R. Lounsbury
  • The proceeds of this addition are added to the current incomes of the farmers and are treated by them as income; whereas the increased carry-over involves no drain on the income-expenditure of other sections of the community but is financed out of savings. —  The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money: Project Gutenberg Australia
  • Another addition is the fact that the spells are now more "in tune" with the rest of the —  GamersInfo.net Articles
  • City officials say the addition is a sign of academic success in Fort … —  WANE TV
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin additiō, additiōn-, from additus, past participle of addere, to add; see add.

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  1. from Middle English addicion, -oun, from French addition, from Latin additio(n-), from addere, increase: see add.
 

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