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.
Sense of “what is added” dates from 14th century, from Middle English addicioun, addition, from Old French adition, from Latin additiōnem, accusative singular of additiō, from addō (“add, put”).
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