Usually means: Removing parts to reduce whole.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. subtractive: Merriam-Webster
  2. subtractive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. subtractive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. subtractive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. subtractive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Subtractive, subtractive: Wordnik
  7. subtractive: Wiktionary
  8. subtractive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. subtractive: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. subtractive: Dictionary.com
  11. Subtractive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. subtractive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. subtractive: Rhymezone
  14. Subtractive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. subtractive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. subtractive: FreeDictionary.org
  17. subtractive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. subtractive: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. subtractive: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. subtractive: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (subtractive)

adjective:  Of or pertaining to subtraction.
adjective:  Of a colour: from which some wavelengths have been removed.

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