Usually means: Remove a number from another.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word subtract:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. subtract: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. subtract: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. subtract: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. subtract: Collins English Dictionary
  5. subtract: Vocabulary.com
  6. Subtract, subtract: Wordnik
  7. subtract: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. subtract: Wiktionary
  9. subtract: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. subtract: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. subtract: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. subtract: Dictionary.com
  13. subtract: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Subtract: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Subtract: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. subtract: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. subtract: Rhymezone
  18. subtract: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. subtract: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. subtract: Free Dictionary
  21. subtract: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. subtract: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. subtract: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. subtract: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. subtract: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. subtract: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. subtract: MATH SPOKEN HERE!

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SUBTRACT: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (transitive, arithmetic) To remove or reduce; especially to reduce a quantity or number

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