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A deduction is defined as when something, especially money, is taken away.
(noun)An example of a deduction is what is taken out of your payroll check for income taxes.
The definition of a deduction is the act of understanding something based on evidence.
(noun)An example of a deduction is what a detective makes after he compares and interprets the details of an investigation.
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See deduction in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun
- a deducting or being deducted; subtraction
- a sum or amount deducted or allowed to be deducted
- Logic the act or process of deducing; reasoning from the general to the specific, or from premises to a logically valid conclusion; also, a conclusion reached by such reasoning
Origin: ME deduccioun < L deductio
Related Forms:
- deductive adjective
- deductively adverb
See deduction in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
- The act of deducting; subtraction.
- An amount that is or may be deducted: tax deductions.
- The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
- Logic a. The process of reasoning in which a conclusion follows necessarily from the stated premises; inference by reasoning from the general to the specific.b. A conclusion reached by this process.
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