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 Cooper, James Fenimore

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 Cooper, William

When we now substract a fixed sum from the line through the origin, the original function cannot be retrieved, and the higher incomes pay more tax.

From Definition & Reality in the General Theory of Political Economy by Colignatus, Thomas

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 Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)