subtrahend
IPA: sʌbtrˈæhɛnd
noun
- (arithmetic) A number or quantity to be subtracted from another.
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Examples of "subtrahend" in Sentences
- How can I find subtrahend
- I know how to find subtrahend.
- What is the subtrahend in this equation
- The minuend is 704, the subtrahend is 512.
- The teacher taught them what subtrahend is.
- Subtrahend is the same as difference between numbers.
- He does not know the subtrahend in that math question.
- Rather it will increase the subtrahend hundred's digit by one.
- Subtraction can be obtained by adding 1 times the subtrahend.
- Subtraction is done by adding the ten's complement of the subtrahend.
- The _subtrahend_ is placed _under_ the minuend to be _drawn_ from it.
- It may seem a matter of trivial importance whether the pupil increases the subtrahend number or decreases the minuend number when he subtracts digits that involve taking or borrowing; and yet investigation proves that to increase the subtrahend number is by far the simpler process, and eliminates both a source of waste and a source of error, which, in the aggregate, may assume a significance to mental economy that is well worth considering.
- We should, therefore, beware of the error to which in our unspirituality we are specially liable; and when we hear Christ assert that "whosoever committeth sin is the slave of sin," we should believe and know, that these words are not extravagant, and contain no subtrahend, -- that they indicate a self-enslavement of the human will which is so real, so total, and so absolute, as to necessitate the renewing grace of God in order to deliverance from it.
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