missubtract

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English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ subtract.

Verb

missubtract (third-person singular simple present missubtracts, present participle missubtracting, simple past and past participle missubtracted)

  1. To subtract incorrectly.
    • 1994, Dorothy L. Mercer, Injury: Learning to Live Again, page 101:
      Who woefully spelled that word? Not I! or missubtracted checks in the hundreds column?
    • 2015 June, Joshua S. Dillon, Abraham R. Neben, Jacqueline N. Hewitt, Max Tegmark, N. Barry, A.P. Beardsley, J. D. Bowman, F. Briggs, P. Carroll, A. de Oliveira-Costa, A. Ewall-Wice L.Feng, L. J. Greenhill, B. J. Hazelton, L. Hernquist, N. Hurley-Walker, D. C. Jacobs, H. S. Kim, P. Kittiwisit, E. Lenc, J. Line, A. Loeb, B. McKinley, D. A. Mitchell, M. F. Morales, A. R. Offringa, S. Paul, B. Pindor, J. C. Pober, P. Procopio, J. Riding, S. Sethi, N. Udaya Shankar, R. Subrahmanyan, I. Sullivan, Nithyanandan Thyagarajan, S. J. Tingay, C. Trott, R.B. Wayth, R. L. Webster, S. Wyithe, G. Bernardi, R. J. Cappallo, A. A. Deshpande, M. Johnston-Hollitt, D. L. Kaplan, C. J. Lonsdale, S. R. McWhirter, E. Morgan, D. Oberoi, S. M. Ord, T. Prabu, K. S. Srivani, A. Williams, C. L. Williams, “Empirical covariance modeling for 21 cm power spectrum estimation: A method demonstration and new limits from early Murchison Widefield Array 128-tile data”, in Physical Review D, volume 91, number 12:
      Precisely quantifying the errors and error correlations due to missubtracted foregrounds allows for both the rigorous analysis of the 21 cm power spectrum and for the maximal isolation of the “EoR window” from foreground contamination.
    • 2015 July, BC Rasco, A Fijałkowska, M Karny, KP Rykaczewski, M Woin/ska-Cichocka, R. Grzywacz, K.C. Goetz, “The nonlinear light output of NaI (Tl) detectors in the Modular Total Absorption Spectrometer”, in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, volume 788:
      There is a missubtracted background due to the lack of a β trigger that is seen in both of the 137 Cs measurements, these are lead x-rays centered around 70–80 keV that come from []