subtraction

English

Alternative forms

• substraction (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin subtractio, subtractionis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /səbˈtɹækʃən/
• Rhymes: -ækʃən

Noun

subtraction (countable and uncountable, plural subtractions)

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

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

3. The removal of something.

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

Related terms

• subtract

Translations

process

• Arabic: طَرْح m (ṭarḥ)
• Armenian: հանում (hy) (hanum)
• Azerbaijani: çıxma
• Bashkir: алыу (alıw)
• Belarusian: адніма́нне n (adnimánnje), адыма́нне n (adymánnje)
• Bulgarian: изва́ждане (bg) n (izváždane)
• Catalan: sostracció f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 減法／减法 (zh) (jiǎnfǎ), 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
• Greek: αφαίρεση (el) f (afaíresi)

  Ancient: ἀφαίρεσις f (aphaíresis)

• Hindi: घटाना (hi) m (ghaṭānā)
• Hungarian: kivonás (hu)
• Icelandic: frádráttur (is) f
• Ido: sustraciono (io)
• Italian: sottrazione (it) f
• Japanese: 引き算 (ja) (ひきざん, hikizan), 減法 (げんぽう, genpō)
• Kannada: ವ್ಯವಕಲನ (vyavakalana)
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• Kazakh: азайту (azaitu)
• Korean: 뺄셈 (ko) (ppaelsem)
• Latvian: atņemšana f
• Lithuanian: atimtis m
• Macedonian: одземање n (odzemanje)
• 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
• Telugu: తీసివేత (te) (tīsivēta)
• Turkish: çıkarma (tr), çıkarma işlemi
• Ukrainian: відніма́ння (vidnimánnja)
• 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)
• Italian: sottrazione (it) f
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• 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
• 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