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Minus

Less; requiring to be subtracted; negative; as, a minus quantity.

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Disadvantageous 84% connected

Attended with disadvantage; unfavorable to success or prosperity; inconvenient; prejudicial; -- opposed to advantageous; as, the situation of an army…

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Disadvantageous 84% connected

Attended with disadvantage; unfavorable to success or prosperity; inconvenient; prejudicial; -- opposed to advantageous; as, the situation of an army…

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Negative 84% connected

Denying; implying, containing, or asserting denial, negation or refusal; returning the answer no to an inquiry or request; refusing assent; as, a neg…

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Negative 84% connected

Denying; implying, containing, or asserting denial, negation or refusal; returning the answer no to an inquiry or request; refusing assent; as, a neg…

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Unfavorable 84% connected

Not favorable; not propitious; adverse; contrary; discouraging.

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Unfavorable 84% connected

Not favorable; not propitious; adverse; contrary; discouraging.

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Deduct 74% connected

To lead forth or out.

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Deduct 74% connected

To lead forth or out.

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Negative 92% connected

Denying; implying, containing, or asserting denial, negation or refusal; returning the answer no to an inquiry or request; refusing assent; as, a neg…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Subtraction 92% connected

The act or operation of subtracting or taking away a part.

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Plus 94% connected

More, required to be added; positive, as distinguished from negative; -- opposed to minus.

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Plus 94% connected

More, required to be added; positive, as distinguished from negative; -- opposed to minus.

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Integer noun · 78% connection

any of the natural numbers (positive or negative) or zero; "an integer is a number that is not a fraction"

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Irrational noun · 78% connection

a real number that cannot be expressed as a rational number

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Irrational number noun · 78% connection

a real number that cannot be expressed as a rational number

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Natural number noun · 78% connection

the number 1 and any other number obtained by adding 1 to it repeatedly

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Rational noun · 78% connection

an integer or a fraction

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Real noun · 78% connection

any rational or irrational number

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Real number noun · 78% connection

any rational or irrational number

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Square root noun · 78% connection

a number that when multiplied by itself equals a given number

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Whole number noun · 78% connection

any of the natural numbers (positive or negative) or zero; "an integer is a number that is not a fraction"

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Acid noun · 78% connection

One of a class of compounds, generally but not always distinguished by their sour taste, solubility in water, and reddening of vegetab…

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Affirmative adjective · 78% connection

Positive; -- a term applied to quantities which are to be added, and opposed to negative, or such as are to be subtracted.

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Best evidence rule noun · 78% connection

a rule of evidence requiring that to prove the content of a writing or recording or photograph the original is required

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Charge noun · 78% connection

the quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons;…

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Chlorous adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to, or resembling, the electro-negative character of chlorine; hence, electro-negative; -- opposed to basylous or zincous.

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Cloff noun · 78% connection

Formerly an allowance of two pounds in every three hundred weight after the tare and tret are subtracted; now used only in a general s…

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Comparative adjective · 78% connection

Expressing a degree greater or less than the positive degree of the quality denoted by an adjective or adverb. The comparative degree…

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Complement verb · 78% connection

A second quantity added to a given quantity to make it equal to a third given quantity.

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Coulomb noun · 78% connection

The standard unit of quantity in electrical measurements. It is the quantity of electricity conveyed in one second by the current prod…

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Court order noun · 78% connection

a writ issued by a court of law requiring a person to do something or to refrain from doing something

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EBITDA noun · 78% connection

income before interest and taxes and depreciation and amortization have been subtracted; an indicator of a company's profitability tha…

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electric charge noun · 78% connection

the quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons;…

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Electro-positive adjective · 78% connection

Of such a nature relatively to some other associated body or bodies, as to tend to the negative pole of a voltaic battery, in electrol…

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Elimination noun · 78% connection

Act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation; especially, in the operation of deducing from several equations containing se…

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Entropy noun · 78% connection

A certain property of a body, expressed as a measurable quantity, such that when there is no communication of heat the quantity remain…

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Equal adjective · 78% connection

Agreeing in quantity, size, quality, degree, value, etc.; having the same magnitude, the same value, the same degree, etc.; -- applied…

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Export verb · 78% connection

sell or transfer abroad; "we export less than we import and have a negative trade balance"

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