Subtraction

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Compound \Com"pound\, a. [OE. compouned, p. p. of compounen. See
     {Compound}, v. t.]
     Composed of two or more elements, ingredients, parts;
     produced by the union of several ingredients, parts, or
     things; composite; as, a compound word.
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           Compound substances are made up of two or more simple
           substances.                              --I. Watts.
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     {Compound addition}, {subtraction}, {multiplication},
     {division} (Arith.), the addition, subtraction, etc., of
        compound numbers.
  
     {Compound crystal} (Crystallog.), a twin crystal, or one
        seeming to be made up of two or more crystals combined
        according to regular laws of composition.
  
     {Compound engine} (Mech.), a form of steam engine in which
        the steam that has been used in a high-pressure cylinder
        is made to do further service in a larger low-pressure
        cylinder, sometimes in several larger cylinders,
        successively.
  
     {Compound ether}. (Chem.) See under {Ether}.
  
     {Compound flower} (Bot.), a flower head resembling a single
        flower, but really composed of several florets inclosed in
        a common calyxlike involucre, as the sunflower or
        dandelion.
  
     {Compound fraction}. (Math.) See {Fraction}.
  
     {Compound fracture}. See {Fracture}.
  
     {Compound householder}, a householder who compounds or
        arranges with his landlord that his rates shall be
        included in his rents. [Eng.]
  
     {Compound interest}. See {Interest}.
  
     {Compound larceny}. (Law) See {Larceny}.
  
     {Compound leaf} (Bot.), a leaf having two or more separate
        blades or leaflets on a common leafstalk.
  
     {Compound microscope}. See {Microscope}.
  
     {Compound motion}. See {Motion}.
  
     {Compound number} (Math.), one constructed according to a
        varying scale of denomination; as, 3 cwt., 1 qr., 5 lb.;
        -- called also {denominate number}.
  
     {Compound pier} (Arch.), a clustered column.
  
     {Compound quantity} (Alg.), a quantity composed of two or
        more simple quantities or terms, connected by the sign +
        (plus) or - (minus). Thus, a + b - c, and bb - b, are
        compound quantities.
  
     {Compound radical}. (Chem.) See {Radical}.
  
     {Compound ratio} (Math.), the product of two or more ratios;
        thus ab:cd is a ratio compounded of the simple ratios a:c
        and b:d.
  
     {Compound rest} (Mech.), the tool carriage of an engine
        lathe.
  
     {Compound screw} (Mech.), a screw having on the same axis two
        or more screws with different pitch (a differential
        screw), or running in different directions (a right and
        left screw).
  
     {Compound time} (Mus.), that in which two or more simple
        measures are combined in one; as, 6-8 time is the joining
        of two measures of 3-8 time.
  
     {Compound word}, a word composed of two or more words;
        specifically, two or more words joined together by a
        hyphen.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Subtraction \Sub*trac"tion\, n. [L. subtractio a drawing back.
     See {Subtract}, and cf. {Substraction}.]
     1. The act or operation of subtracting or taking away a part.
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     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.
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     3. (Law) The withdrawing or withholding from a person of some
        right to which he is entitled by law.
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     Note: 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.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  subtraction
       n 1: an arithmetic operation in which the difference between two
            numbers is calculated; "the subtraction of three from
            four leaves one"; "four minus three equals one" [syn: {minus}]
       2: the act of subtracting (removing a part from the whole); "he
          complained about the subtraction of money from their
          paychecks" [syn: {deduction}] [ant: {addition}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  88 Moby Thesaurus words for "subtraction":
     abatement, abridgment, absence, abstraction, addition, alienation,
     alleviation, approximation, attenuation, awayness, blank,
     contraction, dampening, damping, decrease, decrement, decrescence,
     deduction, deflation, depreciation, depression, deprivation,
     detachment, differentiation, diminishment, diminution,
     disarticulation, disassociation, disconnectedness, disconnection,
     discontinuity, discount, disengagement, disjointing, disjunction,
     dislocation, disunion, division, divorce, divorcement, dying,
     dying off, equation, evolution, extenuation, extrapolation,
     fade-out, incoherence, integration, interpolation, inversion,
     involution, isolation, lack, languishment, lessening, letup,
     lowering, luxation, miniaturization, mitigation, multiplication,
     neverness, nonexistence, nonoccurrence, nonpresence, notation,
     nowhereness, parting, partition, practice, proportion, rebate,
     reduction, relaxation, removal, sagging, scaling down,
     segmentation, separation, separatism, simplicity, subdivision,
     transformation, want, weakening, withdrawal, zoning
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  SUBTRACTION. The act of withholding or detaining anything unlawfully.