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Aa

add, addition

• to join two or more numbers or quantities to get
one number called the sum or total.

EXAMPLES:
addition

Addition (+)
augend + addend = sum
Note: Due to the commutative property of addition,
use of the word ”augend" for the first term in addition is rarely used today,
and both terms are usually called addends
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