addition

The Latin word additĭo came to our language What addition. Its about act and result of adding, complementing or adding something. For example: "The addition of added value to our products is essential if we intend to compete with foreign companies", "The deputy regretted that the addition of the budget for hospitals has not been approved by the government", "The Uruguayan forward would be a great addition to our team.".

Addition can be used as a synonym for sum: the arithmetic operation which consists of adding quantities until a result is obtained. Suppose we wish to add 4 Y 8. That operation is an addition whose result is 12. In other words: 4 + 8 = 12.

It is also important to establish that, within the scope of mathematics, we talk about what is called properties of the addition of numbers. These, in particular, are four:
-Commutative property, which is what indicates that the order of the addends does not alter the result obtained at all. That is, the result will be identical if you add 2 + 6 or 6 + 2.
-Closing property. It is also called "lock" and determines that the sum of two natural numbers will always result in another natural number.
-Distributive property. This third property of an addition establishes that the sum of two numbers multiplied by a third number equals the sum of the product of each addend multiplied by what that third number is. That is, the same result will be obtained from these two operations: (4 + 2) * 2 = 4 * 2 + 2 * 2.
-Associative property, which determines that when three or more numbers are added, the same result will always be obtained regardless of how they are grouped.

That which is added to a text or to another type of construction site it is also called an addition: "The editor was happy with my new job, but asked me to make some additions to extend the last chapter.", "The note on money laundering was published last night with a last minute addition as the judge issued the indictment of the three defendants".

In the field of chemistry, is called addition to the reaction that implies a combination between two or more molecules for the development of a single one. In this sense, one can speak of oxidative addition, electrophilic addition, nucleophilic addition and others.

For the engineering, the addition is an aggregate that, when making industrial alloys through a melting process, is added to a base metal.

Many are the doubts that exist around this term as regards how to write it. And it is very common for it to be confused with another very similar one. We are referring to addiction. However, they have nothing to do with it. Thus, precisely the latter, we have to emphasize that it is the dependence that a person can generate towards drugs, for example, and even towards the use of technology, which is now called nomophobia.