minuend

English

Etymology

Latin minuendus (“something to be diminished”), gerundive of decrease, diminish.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪnjʊˌɛnd/

Noun

minuend (plural minuends)

1. (arithmetic) A number or quantity from which another is to be subtracted.

   In the subtraction 10 − 4, 10 is the minuend and 4 is the subtrahend.

Translations

number from which another is subtracted

• Catalan: minuend m
• Cebuano: kuhaanan
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 被減數／被减数 (zh) (bèijiǎnshù), 被减数 (zh) (bèijiǎnshù)

• Czech: menšenec m
• Dutch: aftrekgetal
• Finnish: vähennettävä (fi)
• French: diminuende (fr) m
• Georgian: სამცირი (samciri), საკლები (saḳlebi)
• German: Minuend m
• Greek: μειωτέος (el) m (meiotéos)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: kisebbítendő
• Icelandic: frádráttarstofn m
• Japanese: 被減数 (higensū), 引かれる数 (hikareru kazu)
• Korean: 피감수 (pigamsu), 빼임수 (ppaeimsu)
• Maori: tau matua
• Polish: odjemna (pl) f
• Portuguese: diminuendo m, minuendo m
• Russian: уменьша́емое (ru) n (umenʹšájemoje)
• Serbo-Croatian: umanjenik (sh) m
• Spanish: minuendo (es) m
• Tagalog: bawasin
• Turkish: eksilen (tr)

See also

• addition, summation: (augend) + (addend) = (summand) + (summand) = (sum, total)
• subtraction: (minuend) − (subtrahend) = (difference)
• multiplication: (multiplier) × (multiplicand) = (factor) × (factor) = (product)
• division: (dividend) ÷ (divisor) = (quotient), remainder left over if divisor does not divide dividend

Anagrams

• unmined

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Catalan

Noun

minuend m (plural minuends)

1. (arithmetic) minuend (number from which another number is subtracted)

Further reading

• “minuend” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.