add-on

See also: addon and add on

English

Alternative forms

• addon

Etymology

From the verb phrase add on.

Noun

add-on (plural add-ons)

1. (sometimes attributive) Something which can be appended to something else.
   • 1969, Edward D. Giacomini, California Retail Installment Sales (page 172)

     Payments made before an add-on sale must be allocated entirely to the previous contract or contracts.

2. (computer hardware, software) A software extension or hardware peripheral that provides additional functions or customization for a core application or system.
   • 2010, Kenneth Baldauf, Ralph Stair, Succeeding with Technology (page 77)

     Microdrives that can hold several gigabytes (see Figure 2.20) have been available as add-ons for portable devices.

3. (poker) Additional chips that can be purchased at specific times in tournament play.

Synonyms

• (something which can be appended to something else): addition, supplement; See also Thesaurus:adjunct
• (computing): add-in, plug-in

Translations

something which can be appended to something else

• Danish: tilføjelse c
• Finnish: lisä (fi)
• French: ajout (fr) m, extension (fr) f
• German: Erweiterung (de) f

• Macedonian: додаток m (dodatok)
• Portuguese: extensão (pt) f
• Russian: добавле́ние (ru) n (dobavlénije), расшире́ние (ru) n (rasširénije)

software: extension of core application

• Czech: doplněk (cs) m
• Danish: tillægsprogram n, tillæg n
• Esperanto: kromprogramo
• Finnish: laajennus (fi)
• French: extension (fr), addiciel (fr) m
• German: Erweiterung (de) f; (colloquial:) Addon n / Add-on (de) n / Add-On n
• Indonesian: pengaya
• Macedonian: додаток m (dodatok)

• Polish: dodatek (pl) m
• Portuguese: extensão (pt) f, complemento (pt) m, suplemento (pt) m, adicional (pt) m, extra (pt) m, add-on (pt) m
• Russian: аддо́н (ru) m (addón), програ́мма-дополне́ние f (prográmma-dopolnénije)
• Spanish: extensión (es) f
• Swedish: tillägg (sv) n, tilläggsprogram n
• Turkish: eklenti (tr)
• Vietnamese: phần mở rộng

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Bulgarian: допълнение (bg) (dopǎlnenie), допълнително количество (dopǎlnitelno količestvo)

• Danish: tillæg

See also

• skin
• look and feel
• peripheral

References

• add-on on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Dando, Donda

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Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English add-on.

Noun

add-on m (plural add-ons)

1. (software) add-on (extension of core application)