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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin subtractio, subtractionis. Can be decomposed to subtract + -ion.
Pronunciation
Noun
subtraction (countable and uncountable, plural subtractions)
- (arithmetic, uncountable) The process of subtracting a number from another.
- (arithmetic, countable) A calculation involving subtracting.
The teacher has set us ten subtractions to do by tomorrow.
- The removal of something.
The subtraction of the wealth from the economy will result in recession.
Derived terms
Translations
process
- Arabic: طَرْح m (ṭarḥ)
- Armenian: հանում (hy) (hanum)
- Azerbaijani: çıxma
- Bashkir: алыу (alıw)
- 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)
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