Subadditive

Adjective

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Definitions

1.AdjectiveSuch that the image of a sum is at most the sum of the images of the summands.

"The square-root function is subadditive under addition because a + b ≤ a + b {\displaystyle {\sqrt {a+b}}\leq {\sqrt {a}}+{\sqrt {b}}} ."

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