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adj. Producing or involving subtraction.

adj. Of or being a color produced by light passing through or reflecting off a colorant, such as a filter or pigment, that absorbs certain wavelengths and transmits or reflects others. See Table at color.

adj. Of or being any of the subtractive colors cyan, magenta, or yellow.

adj. Of or being a photographic process that produces a positive image by superposing or mixing substances that selectively absorb colored light.

adj. Of or pertaining to subtraction

adj. Describing a colour, from which some wavelengths have been removed

adj. Tending, or having power, to subtract.

adj. Having the negative sign, or sign minus.

Tending to subtract; having power to subtract.

In mathematics, having the minus sign (—).

adj. constituting or involving subtraction

"Whereas with pigment adding primaries together have the opposite effect, that is why it is referred to as subtractive color and light is referred to as additive color."

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