Associations to the word «Subtractive»

Wiktionary

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

Dictionary definition

SUBTRACTIVE, adjective. Constituting or involving subtraction; "a subtractive correction".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope