multiply

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Addition, subtraction, multiplication & division
add
add (something) up
addition sign
additive
arithmetical
deduction
half
halve
highest common factor
long division
power
quadruply
quintuple
quotient
recursion
round something down
sextuple
square
table
treble

subtract | American Dictionary

subtract
verb[ T ]
us/səbˈtrækt/
mathematics
to take a number or amount away from another number or amount:
Four subtracted from ten equals six.

subtract | Business English

subtract
verb[ T ]
uk /səbˈtrækt/us
to take a number or amount away from another number or amount:
subtract sth from sthThe costs of manufacturing are subtracted from revenue.

subtraction

noun[ C or U ]
Net output can be calculated by subtraction.

Examples of subtract

subtract
The mean value is subtracted from each series.
Two transverse derivatives were measured by subtracting the signals of two parallel wires which were set 0-2mm apart.
As with the religious context measure, procedures of summing within households, subtracting the respondents' values, and recoding were utilized to create the measure.
The experimental measure for this group is high because this measure subtracts medical costs, which are very high for elderly people, from income.
It is not the case that there is some mysterious essence of ownership that remains after all the authorized legal activities are subtracted from it.
This is a test of how much influence opinion leaders have after subtracting the residual network influence.
From this ranking, those processes ranked as the "worst" contributors are subtracted from the design to produce a series of new, modified designs.
This requires adding voices rather than subtracting them.
The leak currents were not subtracted from the data.
Estimates of non-combustion use of fossil energy are also subtracted for other sectors.
For each component, its outer histogram is subtracted from the corresponding inner histogram, with negative values forced to zero.
The proxy for energy-price surprises is then formed by subtracting these forecasts from the actual change in the energy price.
For every matched pair, the co-registered and normalized blood flow images were subtracted.
To prevent the energy of the system to grow unboundedly a mechanism to subtract it from the system must be devised.
These are found by subtracting the par t from the stock to obtain the delta volume.
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