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- Subtraction - n. - The act or operation of subtracting or taking away a part.
- 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.
- Subtraction - n. - The withdrawing or withholding from a person of some right to which he is entitled by law.
- Derogation - n. - An alteration of, or subtraction from, a contract for a sale of stocks.
- 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.
- Addition - n. - The act of adding two or more things together; -- opposed to subtraction or diminution.
- 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.
- 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.