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| adding machine |
a machine, often used by businesses, that is able to add, subtract, multiply, and divide, esp. one that prints the work on paper. |
| amend |
to formally change by rephrasing, or to add to or subtract from (a legislative bill, a contract, a treaty, or the like). [1/3 definitions] |
| arithmetic |
the study of the use of numbers to add, subtract, multiply, and divide. Arithmetic is a basic area of mathematics. |
| balance |
to subtract the amount of money that you have taken out of your bank account from the amount of money you have put into it. [1/4 definitions] |
| calculate |
to add, subtract, multiply, or divide in order to find an answer to a number question. |
| calculator |
a small machine used to add, subtract, multiply, or divide numbers. |
| debit |
to subtract or charge with an amount. [1/2 definitions] |
| deduct |
to subtract one amount from another. |
| make ten |
in mathematics education, to add or subtract numbers to make the number ten. |
| minus sign |
One action we do with numbers is to subtract one number from another number. An example of multiplying is "five minus three equals two." When we write this in numbers, we use something called a minus sign (-) between the first two numbers: 5 - 3. The minus sign tells us that what is going to happen with these two numbers is subtracting. Three is going to be taken away from five. |
| take |
to subtract. [1/25 definitions] |
| take away |
(informal) to subtract one number or value from another. [1/3 definitions] |
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