addition
/əˈdɪʃ.ən/ noun A2- The act of adding anything. · The addition of five more items to the agenda will make the meeting unbearably long.
- Anything that is added.
- The arithmetic operation of adding.
- A dot at the right side of a note as an indication that its sound is to be lengthened one half.
- A title annexed to a person's name to identify him or her more precisely.
- Something added to a coat of arms, as a mark of honour.
- an organic reaction where two or more molecules combine to form a larger one (the adduct).
Plural additions
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In addition to this, everything forgotten or unperceived before presented itself now to his recollection.
Toto did not like this addition to the party at first.
Not knowing what else to do in so wild a region, the Muleteer placed upon the Mule the load carried by the Ass in addition to his own, and at the top of all placed the hide of the Ass, after he had skinned him.
No one would have thought in looking at this old, weather-beaten, floral-decked tower (which might be likened to an elderly dame dressed up to receive her grandchildren at a birthday feast) that it would have been capable of telling strange things, if,—in addition to the menacing ears which the proverb says all walls are provided with,—it had also a voice.
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