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Webster 1913 Edition
Subtraction
1.
The act or operation of subtracting or taking away a part.
2.
(Math.)
The taking of a lesser number or quantity from a greater of the same kind or denomination; an operation for finding the difference between two numbers or quantities.
3.
(Law)
The withdrawing or withholding from a person of some right to which he is entitled by law.
☞ Thus the subtraction of conjugal rights is when either the husband or wife withdraws from the other and lives separate without sufficient reason. The subtraction of a legacy is the withholding or detailing of it from the legatee by the executor. In like manner, the withholding of any service, rent, duty, or custom, is a subtraction, for which the law gives a remedy.
Blackstone.
Webster 1828 Edition
Subtraction
SUBTRAC'TION
,Noun.
1.
In arithmetic, the taking of a lesser number from a greater of the same kind or denomination; an operation by which is found the difference between two sums.Definition 2024
subtraction
subtraction
English
Noun
subtraction (countable and uncountable, plural subtractions)
- (arithmetic, uncountable) The process of subtracting a number from another.
- (arithmetic, countable) A calculation involving subtracting.
- The teacher has set us ten subtractions to do by tomorrow.
- The removal of something.
- The subtraction of the wealth from the economy will result in recession.
Translations
process
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calculation
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Related terms
See also
- addition, summation: (augend) + (addend) = (summand) + (summand) = (sum, total)
- subtraction: (minuend) − (subtrahend) = (difference)
- multiplication: (multiplier) × (multiplicand) = (factor) × (factor) = (product)
- division: (dividend) ÷ (divisor) = (quotient), remainder left over if divisor does not divide dividend
- minus sign