An arithmetic operation in which the difference between two numbers is calculated

Usage examples of subtraction.

In particular, the brain separates each pitch value into a precise pitch value modulo octaves and an imprecise absolute value, and performs subtraction separately on each of these components.

The teacher was covered with chalkdust and the blackboards were covered with simple additions and subtractions, by multiplicands, multipliers, and products, by dividends, divisors, and quotients.

Southern hex, but they were usually minora matter of humidity, carbon-dioxide content, the addition or subtraction of some trace gas.

Now every absence is a nonevent, a subtraction, an adventure I will hear about when my adventurer materializes at my feet, bleeding or whistling, smiling or shaking.

The teacher was covered with chalkdust and the blackboards were covered with simple additions and subtractions, by multiplicands, multipliers, and products, by dividends, divisors, and quotients.

Long division was taught as a set of rules from a cookbook, with no explanation of how this particular sequence of short divisions, multiplications and subtractions got you the right answer.

But in order to fully understand them, we need first to look carefully at the prerational structures, so we will know, if nothing else than by a process of subtraction, what the transpersonal states are like.

She considered for one instant, and, drawing from her pocket a small ivory box, she wrote, "Tell me why this pomatum has no longer any effect" She formed the pyramid, the columns, and the key, as I had taught her, and as she was ready to get the answer, I told her how to make the additions and subtractions which seem to come from the numbers, but which in reality are only arbitrary.

An hour and a half afterwards I sent her the following letter, which I copied without addition or subtraction: "A quarter of an hour after I had sent off my letter, the village doctor came to tell me that my man had need of his treatment for a disease of a shameful nature which he had contracted quite recently.

There is no language involved, only mathematics, with a progressive series of examples to contextually define the symbols, starting with simple addition and subtraction and ending with a form of vector analysis.

He adjusted the specta cles carefully on his nose, picked up his pen, waved a negligent hand in acquiescence, and returned to his credits and debits, his additions and subtractions.

From the glimpse I caught of the check register, it looked as though it had been a while since she'd done her subtraction.

They went through addition, subtraction, multiplication and division in short order and before he knew it he was into elementary algebra.

It's all very well to maximize your gains and minimize your losses, but there are some things you can't weigh by addition and subtraction - things like freedom, privacy, equality before the law, and what I will have to call, rather vaguely, the unique: a moment of understanding, a work of art, a human life.

But in involution or efflux, if we start with the highest and represent it as A, the next level down is A - B, the next is A B C, and so forth, since each involutionary efflux is a subtraction or a stepping-down from the ground of its predecessor.