minuend

English

Etymology

From Latin minuendus (“something to be diminished”), gerundive of minuō (“decrease, diminish”), by surface analysis, minus +‎ -end.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪnjʊˌɛnd/

Noun

minuend (plural minuends)

1. (arithmetic) A number or quantity from which another is to be subtracted.

   In the subtraction 10 − 4, 10 is the minuend and 4 is the subtrahend.

Translations

number from which another is subtracted

Asturian: minuendu m Azerbaijani: azalan Bulgarian: умаляемо (umaljaemo) Catalan: minuend m Cebuano: kuhaanan Chinese: Mandarin: 被減數 / 被减数 (zh) (bèijiǎnshù) Czech: menšenec m Dutch: aftrekgetal Finnish: vähennettävä (fi) French: diminuende (fr) m Galician: minuendo m Georgian: სამცირი (samciri), საკლები (saḳlebi) German: Minuend (de) m Greek: μειωτέος (el) m (meiotéos) Hungarian: kisebbítendő (hu) Icelandic: frádráttarstofn m Indonesian: kinurang Ingrian: vähennettävä Italian: minuendo (it) m Japanese: 被減数 (ja) (higensū), 引かれる数 (hikareru kazu) Korean: 피감수 (pigamsu), 빼임수 (ppaeimsu) Maori: tau matua Polish: odjemna (pl) f Portuguese: diminuendo m, minuendo m Russian: уменьша́емое (ru) n (umenʹšájemoje) Serbo-Croatian: umanjenik (sh) m Spanish: minuendo (es) m Tagalog: bawasin Turkish: eksilen (tr)

See also

Other terms used in arithmetic operations:

• successor
• addition, summation:

  (augend) + (addend) = (total)

  (summand) + (summand) + (summand)... = (sum)

• subtraction:

  (minuend) − (subtrahend) = (difference)

• multiplication, factorization:

  (multiplier) × (multiplicand) = (product)

  (factor) × (factor) × (factor)... = (product)

• division:

  (dividend) ÷ (divisor) = (quotient)

  (numerator) / (denominator) = (quotient)

  Or sometimes = (quotient) with (remainder) remaining

• exponentiation:

  (base) ^(exponent) = (power)

• root extraction:

  ^(degree) √ (radicand) = (root)

• logarithmization:

  log_(base) (antilogarithm) = (logarithm)

Advanced hyperoperations: tetration, pentation, hexation

Anagrams

• unmined

Catalan

Pronunciation

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Noun

minuend m (plural minuends)

1. (arithmetic) minuend (number from which another number is subtracted)

Further reading

• “minuend”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007