Definition of "subtracting" [subtracting]

• Present participle of subtract. (verb)

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• "Websites will put as many ads as they can without subtracting from the user experience, whether they are targeted or not."
• "These subatomic events are cancelling out the equivalent temporal components of time and anti-time, thereby ‘subtracting from the universe another quantum from its total store of time’ and depleting ‘the time-store available to the materials of our own solar system’."
• "The murder mystery feels unnecessary and too standardized subtracting from the overall theme of racism due to skin color or religion on board a US Navy WW II vessel."