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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Deduce :: Deduce (v. t.) To take away; to deduct; to subtract; as, to deduce a part from the whole..

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..

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..

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

Cloff :: Cloff (n.) Formerly an allowance of two pounds in every three hundred weight after the tare and tret are subtracted; now used only in a general sense, of small deductions from the original weight..

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

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..

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

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

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..

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.

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