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  • adjective Not additive.

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non- +‎ additive

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Examples

  • If it were me being backed into a corner, I would declare myself a proponent not a believer, not a backer of the nonlinear-nonadditive model.

    Juckes and Covariance PCs « Climate Audit 2006

  • Ones that succeed have “jazz,” which for products is as hard to define as it is for music—“nonadditive” appeal that comprises far more than just the sum total of attributes or characteristics of that product.

    Executive Economics SHLOMO MAITAL 1994

  • Ones that succeed have “jazz,” which for products is as hard to define as it is for music—“nonadditive” appeal that comprises far more than just the sum total of attributes or characteristics of that product.

    Executive Economics SHLOMO MAITAL 1994

  • This shows that a locus may show additive gene action while being completely nonadditive at the allele interaction level.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Arne B. Gjuvsland et al. 2010

  • The degree of dominance is often described by the scaled dominance value is positive, the heterozygote has a genotypic value larger than the mean of the two homozygotes, and the locus shows positive dominance (or positive nonadditive gene action).

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Arne B. Gjuvsland et al. 2010

  • All characters were nonadditive, and uninformative characters were excluded before the analysis.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Marcus K. Drotz et al. 2010

  • If is negative, the heterozygote is positioned below the mean value, and the locus shows negative dominance (recessive, or negative nonadditive gene action).

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Arne B. Gjuvsland et al. 2010

  • Several known biological mechanisms involving no regulatory feedback do indeed cause nonadditive allele interaction.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Arne B. Gjuvsland et al. 2010

  • Some of the evidence suggests that there are nonadditive effects of the act of chewing and gum flavor - perhaps because the flavoring adds an additional dimension to the experience, differentiating all stimuli processed under that context from others, and perhaps thereby aiding in recall of that information.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2009

  • [55] in combination with high-dimensional phenotyping is likely to provide important input to the long-standing discussion on the nature, origin and importance of nonadditive gene action.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Arne B. Gjuvsland et al. 2010

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