An \alpha-additive spanner of an undirected graph G =(V, E)  is a subgraph H such that the distance between any two vertices in G is stretched by no more than an additive factor of \alpha.
<meaning-changed> An \alpha-additive spanner of an undirected graph G =(V, E)  is a subgraph H such that the distance between any two vertices in G is stretched by no more than an additive factor of \alpha.
An \alpha-additive spanner of an undirected graph G =(V, E) of a graph G is a subgraph H such that the distance between any two vertices in G is stretched by no more than an additive factor of \alpha.