missubtraction

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noun

An instance of missubtracting; incorrect subtraction.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

nounmissubtraction (plural missubtractions)

plural missubtractions

  1. An instance of missubtracting; incorrect subtraction.

    By considering the missubtraction noise, recognition performance is significantly improved.

    1994, ICASSP-94: 1994 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, page 60
    2 more examples

    If the increase in brightness is less than 10%, it is likely that the candidate is a missubtraction.

    1992, Heidi Jo Marvin Newberg, Measuring Qo Using Supernovae at Z, page 58

    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 […]

    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

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