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Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a new method for detecting defects in additively manufactured components.

From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2024

The manufacturers say they will purchase additively produced parts from smaller U.S. suppliers; train supplier workers on new additive technologies; provide technical assistance; and engage in standards development and certification.

From Reuters • Aug. 17, 2022

This representation allowed Sturtevant to additively calculate distances between several genes on the same chromosome.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Inside ReForm is a fast-spinning milling head, which cuts shapes out of material in the traditional subtractive manner, and a 3D-printing extrusion head, which builds material in layers up additively.

From Economist • May 26, 2016

If the two faces are not molecularly similar, however, there will be a current, and the electrical effects to be subsequently described will act additively, in an algebraical sense.

From Response in the Living and Non-Living by Bose, Jagadis Chandra, Sir