Definition for AD-DIT'A-MENT

AD-DIT'A-MENT, n. [L. additamentum, from additus and ment. See Add.]

An addition, or rather the thing added, as furniture in a house; any material mixed with the principal ingredient in a compound. Ancient anatomists gave the name to an epiphysis, or junction of bones without articulation. [Little used in either sense.]

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