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Definition of Subtracts
1. subtract [v] - See also: subtract
Lexicographical Neighbors of Subtracts
Literary usage of Subtracts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lancet (1842)
"... and in discouraging the productive employment of capital, while a property-tax
interferes with trade and enterprise only so far as it subtracts capital. ..."
2. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel According to St. Mark by Ezra Palmer Gould (1896)
"... the omission of lo*"20, with its account of the resurrection and ascension,
subtracts not from the creed, but from confirmations of the creed. ..."
3. Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art edited by David Ames Wells (1852)
"The former silicates constitute the azure or coarse blue, and the latter are
partially decomposed by water, which subtracts a sub-silicate of potassa and ..."
4. The Romance of Modern Photography: Its Discovery & Its Achievements by Charles Robert Gibson (1908)
"If he prints yellow ink on to a paper, he merely subtracts the violet rays of
light We ... A crimson- pink or red ink therefore subtracts the green rays. ..."
5. Abel's Theorem and the Allied Theory: Including the Theory of the Theta by Henry Frederick Baker (1897)
"adds the »-th column to the r-th, and, at the same time, subtracts the (p + r)th
from the (p + t)th column. fr,,=t,gr,j!,, adds the (p+r)th and (p+i)th ..."