subtraction
subtraction
Definition
sub·trac·tion (səb trak′s̸hən)
noun
a subtracting or being subtracted; esp., the mathematical process of finding the difference between two numbers or quantities
Etymology: ML subtractio < LL(Ec), a drawing back
subtraction
Synonyms
subtraction
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- integer: Carry out column addition and subtraction of two integers less than 1000, and column addition of more than two such integers.
- number: The last table shows the similarities after subtraction of the smallest number found in the table.
Converse of object
- perform: Program GRAB is used to perform the necessary subtraction of the maps in order to calculate the differences.
- do: Recently I had an adult returned who was doing subtraction using 'borrow one pay one back ' .
- use: Because of these problems it is often better to use image subtraction or image division for change detection.
Adjective modifier
- dark: However, I believe that the dark frame subtraction does not like FITS files at the moment.
- mental: We also did lots of mental subtraction and addition.
- simple: He predicts which number you'll choose at the end of a simple subtraction.
- good: These may need to be removed before a good background subtraction can be performed.
Modifies a noun
- angiography: Digital subtraction angiography For cardiac imaging the contrast medium may be administered intra-arterially by selective catheterisation to provide subtracted images.
- fact: Know by heart all addition and subtraction facts for each number to 20.
- sum: Later you can use buns for simple addition and subtraction sums.
- method: The effectiveness of the pulse artifact subtraction method is demonstrated in this image.
- operation: The carry flag is always set to the value of the carry out of the byte after an addition or subtraction operation.
- skill: Children will develop addition and subtraction skills through use of dominoes.
Noun used with modifier
- post-edge: You only have to work on the post-edge subtraction.
- background: We now have a suite of five background subtraction programs available!
- sky: The sky subtraction aperture is assumed to the 5 times larger than the object aperture.
- bias: The use of a variance component allows the effects of noise in bias subtraction to be properly monitored.
- image: Thanks to features like image subtraction, two thermal images can have the temperature of each pixel subtracted from each other.
subtraction Quotes
A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.
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