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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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This intermodulation creates an effect called heterodyning, where additive and subtractive tones, known as beat frequencies, are created.
His subtractive procedure is the ruthless evacuation of everything taken-for-granted as a prelude to the construction of a new Good.
In Eastern culture, meaning is based on subtractive mechanisms, similar to those of mixing light.
Mixing two of them produces cyan, magenta and yellow, also called the subtractive colors.
It is a subtractive system that removes the unwanted colors from white light.
The re-zero key is a combined semiautomatic zero setting subtractive tare-balancing device.

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