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

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..

Substraction :: Substraction (n.) Subtraction; deduction.

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

Subtraction :: Subtraction (n.) The act or operation of subtracting or taking away a part.

Subdued :: Subduction (n.) Arithmetical subtraction.

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

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..

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.

Borrow :: Borrow (v. t.) To take (one or more) from the next higher denomination in order to add it to the next lower; -- a term of subtraction when the figure of the subtrahend is larger than the corresponding one of the minuend.

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..

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

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