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What does subtractive mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word subtractive? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to subtraction.
  2. Of a colour: from which some wavelengths have been removed.
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Mixing two of them produces cyan, magenta and yellow, also called the subtractive colors.
This intermodulation creates an effect called heterodyning, where additive and subtractive tones, known as beat frequencies, are created.
In a subtractive process, strips of tape are progressively removed from the canvas's surface as color is applied in a systematic fashion.
The CMY color model is a subtractive process that uses the secondary colors: cyan, magenta, and yellow.
In Eastern culture, meaning is based on subtractive mechanisms, similar to those of mixing light.
A suppressive, subtractive hybridization procedure was applied to dissected midguts of the budworm exposed to sub-lethal levels of the toxin.

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