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121Epicureanism — Stephen Everson It is tempting to portray Epicureanism as the most straightforward, perhaps even simplistic, of the major dogmatic philosophical schools of the Hellenistic age. Starting from an atomic physics, according to which ‘the totality of… …
122deduct — I (Roget s IV) v. Syn. take away, take from, diminish, subtract; see decrease 2 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v. subtract, take off, decrease, remove, withdraw, reduce, cut, write off. ANT.: add, increase III (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb 1. To… …
123de|duct — «dih DUHKT», transitive verb. 1. to take away; subtract: »The father deducted the costs of the broken window from his son s allowance. SYNONYM(S): See syn. under subtract. (Cf. ↑subtract) 2. Obsolete. to deduce. ╂[< Latin dēductus …
124sub|tract´er — sub|tract «suhb TRAKT», transitive verb, intransitive verb. 1. to take away: »Subtract 2 from 10 and you have 8. 2. to take away (something) from a whole. ╂[< Latin subtractus, past participle of subtrahere < sub from under + trahere draw]… …
125sub|tract — «suhb TRAKT», transitive verb, intransitive verb. 1. to take away: »Subtract 2 from 10 and you have 8. 2. to take away (something) from a whole. ╂[< Latin subtractus, past participle of subtrahere < sub from under + trahere draw]… …
126Accumulator (computing) — In a computer s central processing unit (CPU), an accumulator is a register in which intermediate arithmetic and logic results are stored. Without a register like an accumulator, it would be necessary to write the result of each calculation… …
127Deduction — may refer to: in logic: Deductive reasoning, inference in which the conclusion is of no greater generality than the premises Natural deduction, an approach to proof theory that attempts to provide a formal model of logical reasoning as it… …
128Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority — The MBTA provides services in five different modes (boat not pictured) around Greater Boston …
