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"subtract this amount from my paycheck"verbmake a subtractionOpposite:
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"this prefix was subtracted when the word was borrowed from French"verbtake off or away
Definition that contains subtract
- difference the number that remains after subtraction; the number that when added to the subtrahend gives the minuend
- correction a quantity that is added or subtracted in order to increase the accuracy of a scientific measure
- deduct make a subtraction
- remainder the number that remains after subtraction; the number that when added to the subtrahend gives the minuend
- deduction the act of subtracting (removing a part from the whole)
- subtract make a subtraction
- magenta a primary subtractive color for light; a dark purple-red color; the dye for magenta was discovered in 1859, the year of the battle of Magenta
- subtraction the act of subtracting (removing a part from the whole)
- cyan a primary subtractive color for light; has a blue-green color
- ionisation the process of ionizing; the formation of ions by separating atoms or molecules or radicals or by adding or subtracting electrons from atoms by strong electric fields in a gas