missubtraction
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From mis- + subtraction or missubtract + -ion.
Noun
[edit]missubtraction (plural missubtractions)
- An instance of missubtracting; incorrect subtraction.
- 1992, Heidi Jo Marvin Newberg, Measuring Qo Using Supernovae at Z, page 58:
- If the increase in brightness is less than 10%, it is likely that the candidate is a missubtraction.
- 1994, ICASSP-94: 1994 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, page 60:
- By considering the missubtraction noise, recognition performance is significantly improved.
- 2002, A. Orecchini, A. Paciaroni, A. R. Bizzarri, and S. Cannistraro, “Dynamics of different hydrogen classes in β-lactoglobulin: a quasielastic neutron scattering investigation”, in The Journal of Physical Chemistry:
- In carrying out such outlined procedure, however, it should be taken into account that a possible missubtraction of the intense elastic peak could considerably spoil the resulting […]