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n. The act or process of subtracting; deduction.

n. Mathematics The arithmetic operation of finding the difference between two quantities or numbers.

n. (uncountable) The process of subtracting a number from another.

n. (countable) A calculation involving subtracting.

n. The removal of something.

adj.

n. The act or operation of subtracting or taking away a part.

n. 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.

n. The withdrawing or withholding from a person of some right to which he is entitled by law.

n. The act or operation of subtracting, or taking a part from a whole.

n. Specifically, in arithmetic and algebra, the taking of one number or quantity from another; the operation of finding the difference between two numbers.

n. In law, a withdrawing or neglecting, as when a person who owes any suit, duty, custom, or service to another withdraws it or neglects to perform it.

n. Detraction.

n. an arithmetic operation in which the difference between two numbers is calculated

n. the act of subtracting (removing a part from the whole)

"He states that although some Mendelians have spoken of genetic factors as permanent and indestructible, he is satisfied that they may occasionally undergo a quantitative disintegration, the results of which he calls subtraction or reduction stages."

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compound subtraction    geometrical subtraction    vectorial subtraction    minus sign   

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