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
• 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
• Georgian: სამცირი (samciri), საკლები (saḳlebi)
• German: Minuend (de) m
• Greek: μειωτέος (el) m (meiotéos)
• Hungarian: kisebbítendő (hu)
• Icelandic: frádráttarstofn m
• Indonesian: kinurang
• Ingrian: vähennettävä
• 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

Noun

minuend m (plural minuends)

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

Further reading

• “minuend” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.