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Subtranslucent :: Subtrahend (n.) The sum or number to be subtracted, or taken from another..

Substractor :: Substractor (n.) One who subtracts.

Minuend :: Minuend (n.) The number from which another number is to be subtracted.

Substractor :: Substraction (n.) See Subtraction, 3..

Addition :: Addition (n.) The act of adding two or more things together; -- opposed to subtraction or diminution.

Remainder :: Remainder (n.) The quantity or sum that is left after subtraction, or after any deduction..

Diminish :: Diminish (v. t.) To take away; to subtract.

Difference :: Difference (n.) The quantity by which one quantity differs from another, or the remainder left after subtracting the one from the other..

Derogation :: Derogation (n.) An alteration of, or subtraction from, a contract for a sale of stocks..

Subtraction :: Subtraction (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.

Subtractive :: Subtractive (a.) Tending, or having power, to subtract..

Logarithm :: Logarithm (n.) One of a class of auxiliary numbers, devised by John Napier, of Merchiston, Scotland (1550-1617), to abridge arithmetical calculations, by the use of addition and subtraction in place of multiplication and division..

Minus :: Minus (a.) Less; requiring to be subtracted; negative; as, a minus quantity..

Subduction :: Subduct (v. t.) To subtract by arithmetical operation; to deduct.

Additive :: Additive (a.) Proper to be added; positive; -- opposed to subtractive.

Prove :: Prove (v. t.) To test, evince, ascertain, or verify, as the correctness of any operation or result; thus, in subtraction, if the difference between two numbers, added to the lesser number, makes a sum equal to the greater, the correctness of the subtraction is proved..

Subtrahend :: Subtractive (a.) Having the negative sign, or sign minus..

Subtracter :: Subtract (v. t.) To withdraw, or take away, as a part from the whole; to deduct; as, subtract 5 from 9, and the remainder is 4..

Subtractive :: Subtraction (n.) The withdrawing or withholding from a person of some right to which he is entitled by law.

Deduction :: Deduction (n.) Act of deducting or taking away; subtraction; as, the deduction of the subtrahend from the minuend..

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