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missubtract

missubtract verb: to subtract incorrectly.

Verb

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

  1. To subtract incorrectly.
    • Who woefully spelled that word? Not I! or missubtracted checks in the hundreds column?1994, Dorothy L. Mercer, Injury: Learning to Live Again, page 101
    • 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 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....

Forms of missubtract

third-person singular presentmissubtracts
present participlemissubtracting
past participlemissubtracted
pastmissubtracted

Origin of missubtract

From mis- + subtract.

Words formed from missubtract

Questions about missubtract

What does missubtract mean?
Missubtract means to subtract incorrectly.
What part of speech is missubtract?
Missubtract is a verb.
What is the past tense of missubtract?
The past tense of missubtract is missubtracted.

Words near missubtract in the dictionary

  1. misstyling
  2. missubmit
  3. missubmits
  4. missubmitted
  5. missubmitting
  6. missubtract
  7. missubtracted
  8. missubtracting
  9. missubtraction
  10. missubtractions
  11. missubtracts

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