subtraction

English

Alternative forms

• substraction (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin subtractio, subtractionis. Can be decomposed to subtract +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /səbˈtɹækʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ækʃən

Noun

subtraction (countable and uncountable, plural subtractions)

2. (arithmetic, uncountable) The process of subtracting a number from another.
3. (arithmetic, countable) A calculation involving subtracting.

   The teacher has set us ten subtractions to do by tomorrow.

4. The removal of something.

   The subtraction of the wealth from the economy will result in recession.

Derived terms

• missubtraction

Related terms

• subtract
• subtractive

Translations

process

• Albanian: zbritja f
• Arabic: طَرْح m (ṭarḥ)
• Armenian: հանում (hy) (hanum)
• Azerbaijani: çıxma
• Bashkir: алыу (alıw)
• Basque: kenketa
• Belarusian: адніма́нне n (adnimánnje), адыма́нне n (adymánnje)
• Bengali: বিয়োগ (bn) (biẏōg)
• Bulgarian: изва́ждане (bg) n (izváždane)
• Catalan: sostracció (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 減法 / 减法 (zh) (jiǎnfǎ)

• Czech: odčítání (cs) n
• Danish: subtraktion (da) c
• Dutch: aftrekken (nl) n
• Esperanto: subtraho
• Estonian: lahutamine
• Finnish: vähentäminen (fi)
• French: soustraction (fr) f
• Georgian: გამოკლება (gamoḳleba)
• German: Subtraktion (de) f, Abziehen n, Abziehung f, Subtrahierung f, Subtrahieren n, Abzug (de) m
• Greek: αφαίρεση (el) f (afaíresi)

  Ancient: ἀφαίρεσις f (aphaíresis)

• Hindi: घटाना (hi) m (ghaṭānā)
• Hungarian: kivonás (hu)
• Icelandic: frádráttur (is) f
• Ido: sustraciono (io)
• Indonesian: pengurangan (id)
• Italian: sottrazione (it) f
• Japanese: 引き算 (ja) (ひきざん, hikizan), 減法 (ja) (げんぽう, genpō)
• Kannada: ವ್ಯವಕಲನ (kn) (vyavakalana)
• Kazakh: азайту (azaitu)
• Korean: 뺄셈 (ko) (ppaelsem), 빼기 (ko) (ppaegi), 감법(減法) (gambeop)
• Kyrgyz: кемитме (kemitme)
• Latvian: atņemšana f
• Lithuanian: atimtis m
• Macedonian: одземање n (odzemanje)
• Malay: penolakan (ms)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: хасах үйлдэл (xasax üjldel)

  Mongolian: ᠬᠠᠰᠤᠬᠤ
  ᠦᠶᠢᠯᠡᠳᠦᠯ (qasuqu üyiledül)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: subtraksjon m

  Nynorsk: subtraksjon m

• Persian: تفریق (fa) (tafriq)
• Polish: odejmowanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: subtração (pt) f
• Romanian: scădere (ro) f
• Russian: вычита́ние (ru) n (vyčitánije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: оду̀зима̄ње n

  Roman: odùzimānje (sh) m

• Slovak: odčítanie n
• Slovene: odštevanje n
• Spanish: resta (es) f, substracción (es) f
• Swedish: subtraktion (sv)
• Tagalog: palabawasan
• Tamil: கழித்தல் (ta) (kaḻittal)
• Telugu: తీసివేత (te) (tīsivēta)
• Turkish: çıkarma (tr), çıkarma işlemi (tr)
• Ukrainian: відніма́ння (vidnimánnja)
• Urdu: تفریق (tafrīq)
• Uzbek: ayirish (uz), olish (uz)
• Vietnamese: phép trừ (vi)

calculation

• Armenian: հանում (hy) (hanum)
• Bashkir: алыу (alıw)
• Catalan: subtracció f
• Dutch: aftrekking (nl) f
• Esperanto: subtraho
• Georgian: გამოკლება (gamoḳleba)
• Greek: αφαίρεση (el) f (afaíresi)

  Ancient: ἀφαίρεσις f (aphaíresis)

• Hungarian: kivonás (hu)
• Ido: sustraciono (io)
• Ingrian: vähentämiin
• Italian: sottrazione (it) f
• Japanese: 引き算 (ja) (ひきざん, hikizan), 減算 (ja) (げんさん, gensan), 減法 (ja) (げんぽう, genpō)
• Korean: 뺄셈 (ko) (ppaelsem)
• Kyrgyz: кемитме (kemitme)
• Maori: tangohanga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: subtraksjon m

  Nynorsk: subtraksjon m

• Portuguese: subtração (pt) f
• Russian: вычита́ние (ru) n (vyčitánije)
• Serbo-Croatian: oduzimanje (sh) n
• Tagalog: palabawasan
• Telugu: తీసివేత (te) (tīsivēta)
• Turkish: çıkarma işlemi (tr)
• Ukrainian: відніма́ння (vidnimánnja)

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
• minus sign