missubtraction

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ subtraction or missubtract +‎ -tion

Noun

missubtraction (plural missubtractions)

1. 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 […]