Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who subtracts.
- noun A subtrahend.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who subtracts.
- noun obsolete The subtrahend.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who, or that which,
subtracts .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who subtracts numbers
- noun a machine that subtracts numbers
Etymologies
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subtract + -er
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Examples
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Using an adder and subtracter, its performance speed at 260K operations per second was comparable to medium-size machines of that period.
unknown title 2009
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Using an adder and subtracter, its performance speed at 260K operations per second was comparable to medium-size machines of that period.
unknown title 2009
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