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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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The CMY color model is a subtractive process that uses the secondary colors: cyan, magenta, and yellow.
This intermodulation creates an effect called heterodyning, where additive and subtractive tones, known as beat frequencies, are created.
Mixing two of them produces cyan, magenta and yellow, also called the subtractive colors.
In a subtractive process, strips of tape are progressively removed from the canvas's surface as color is applied in a systematic fashion.
The size of a large refrigerator, it is capable of both subtractive and additive manufacturing.
Such is the challenge presented by the difficult transition from subtractive bilingualism to additive bilingualism.

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