add
Definitions
General English
General Science
- verb to make a total from something
- verb to put together two or more things to make a larger group or a group with different properties
Accounting
- verb to put figures together to make a total
Aviation
- verb to put figures together to form a sum, to make a total
Computing
- verb to put things together to form a larger group
Economics
- (written as ADD)Anti-dumping duty.
- acronym forAnti-dumping duty (written as ADD)
- noun a tax imposed by a country on imported goods, to increase their price to a position where they do not offer unfair competition to locally-produced goods, especially where the price of the goods imported includes a subsidy from the government in the country of origin.
Human Resources
- verb to put things together to make a large group
Media Studies
- noun additional material in the form of new paragraphs which updates or expands on an existing article
Military
- verb to join one thing to another in order to increase the quantity
- verb to correct artillery or mortar fire so that the rounds land further away from the observer
Origin & History of “add”
Etymologically, add means simply ‘put to’. Its source is Latin addere, a compound verb formed from the prefix ad- ‘to’ and the stem -dere ‘put’ (which is related to English do). Its original meaning in English was simply ‘join one thing to another’; its specific mathematical use did not develop until the early 16th century.
