substract
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We can use the preceding two examples for the volume of the sphere and ellipsoid and then substract.
From Textbooks ● Mar. 30, 2016
Well, Wenham, you are a fortunate man," interposed Mr. Howel, "if you can find any literature in America, to add to, or to substract from.
From Home as Found by James Fenimore Cooper
The happy must substract from his happiness the frequent reflection, which comes like a cloud over him, that death will snatch him from all his blessings.
From A Sketch of the Life of the late Henry Cooper Barrister-at-Law, of the Norfolk Circuit; as also, of his Father by William Cooper
Properly we should substract productivity growth, but for our purposes we may now assume that productivity is constant.
From Definition & Reality in the General Theory of Political Economy by Thomas Colignatus
The clergyman knew someting of surgery, and he managed to substract the ball from my hip.
From By Sheer Pluck, a Tale of the Ashanti War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
