as in deduction
the act or an instance of taking away from a total
the restaurant may not have raised the price, but there's definitely been a subtraction in the number of fries in a side order
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The ramp subtraction did more than just create fresh fan entrances, open atriums and oceans of vertical space.
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Tim Newcomb, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
Since modular subtraction is associative, that also means that se − m mod n ≡ 0.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 9 Aug. 2024
The addition and the subtraction quotients don’t seem to make sense.
—Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 July 2024
Politics must be about addition and multiplication, not subtraction and division.
—Dusty Johnson, Washington Post, 28 July 2024
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Tim Newcomb, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
Since modular subtraction is associative, that also means that se − m mod n ≡ 0.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 9 Aug. 2024
The addition and the subtraction quotients don’t seem to make sense.
—Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 July 2024
Politics must be about addition and multiplication, not subtraction and division.
—Dusty Johnson, Washington Post, 28 July 2024
See all Example Sentences for subtraction
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“Subtraction.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subtraction. Accessed 30 Oct. 2024.
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