add-on

See also: addon and add on

English

Alternative forms

• addon

Etymology

Deverbal from add on.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

  (file)

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.
4. (video games) Synonym of expansion pack.

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)
• Polish: dodatek (pl) m
• 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), дополнение (ru) n (dopolnenije), расширение (ru) n (rasširenije)
• Spanish: extensión (es) f
• Swedish: tillägg (sv) n, tilläggsprogram n
• Turkish: eklenti (tr)
• Ukrainian: дода́ток m (dodátok)
• Vietnamese: phần mở rộng

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Bulgarian: допълнение (bg) (dopălnenie), допълнително количество (dopălnitelno količestvo)
• Danish: tillæg

See also

• look and feel
• peripheral
• skin

References

• add-on on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Dando, Donda

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

English add ondeverb.

English add-onubor.

Portuguese add-on

Unadapted borrowing from English add-on.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈdõ/

Noun

add-on m (plural add-ons)

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