0 relating to subtraction (= the process of removing one number from another): --
The subtractive equation property states that the two sides of an equation remain equal if the same number is subtracted from each side.
Milling machines carve parts in a subtractive process from a blank.
Medicine is subtractive in that you need to subtract out anything that is irrelevant until you can isolate the one thing left that works.
Interference is a phenomenon in which two waves either have an additive or subtractive effect on each other's intensity.
We can complete it step by step however long the road is and it can't be completed however short the road is if you don't even mark your footprint.
Vi kan slutföra det steg för steg hur lång vägen än är och den kan inte slutföras hur kort vägen än är om du inte ens markerar ditt fotavtryck.