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Word Meanings - SUBTRACTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. (more info) 1. The act or operation of subtracting or taking away a part.

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  • APPROPRIATION
    1. The act of setting apart or assigning to a particular use or person, or of taking to one's self, in exclusion of all others; application to a special use or purpose, as of a piece of ground for a park, or of money to carry out some object. 2.
  • ABSTRACTION
    The act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or
  • SUBTRACTION
    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. (more info) 1. The act or operation of subtracting or taking away a part.
  • SEIZURE
    1. The act of seizing, or the state of being seized; sudden and violent grasp or gripe; a taking into possession; as, the seizure of a thief, a property, a throne, etc. 2. Retention within one's grasp or power; hold; possession; ownership. Make
  • ABSTRACTIONAL
    Pertaining to abstraction.
  • ABDUCTION
    The movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body. (more info) 1. The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; a carrying away. Roget.
  • ABSTRACTIONIST
    An idealist. Emerson.
  • ABLUTION
    A small quantity of wine and water, which is used to wash the priest's thumb and index finger after the communion, and which then, as perhaps containing portions of the consecrated elements, is drunk by the priest. (more info) 1. The act of washing
  • DEPRIVATION
    the taking away from a clergyman his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity. Note: Deprivation may be a beneficio or ab officio; the first takes away the living, the last degrades and deposes from the order. (more info) 1. The act of
  • ABLUTIONARY
    Pertaining to ablution.
  • DISAPPROPRIATION
    The act of disappropriating.
  • RESEIZURE
    A second seizure; the act of seizing again. Bacon.
  • MISAPPROPRIATION
    Wrong appropriation; wrongful use.
  • DISSEIZURE
    Disseizin. Speed.

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