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substractions

substractions is the plural of substraction.

Meaning of substraction

Noun

substraction (countable and uncountable, plural substractions)

  1. (obsolete or non-native speakers' English) Subtraction.
    • The plasterer doth make his figures by addition, and the carver by substraction.1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill, →OCLC

Questions about substractions

What is substractions the plural of?
Substractions is the plural of substraction.

Words near substractions in the dictionary

  1. substory
  2. substract
  3. substracted
  4. substracting
  5. substraction
  6. substractions
  7. substractive
  8. substracts
  9. substrain
  10. substrains
  11. substrata

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Adapted from Wiktionary: substractions (page history and authors); substraction (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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