What's the difference between divisor and minuend?

Divisor


Definition:

  • (n.) The number by which the dividend is divided.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The new index distinguished 19 of 23 patients with pulmonary hypertension, with one false positive, when the divisor was actual lung volume; when predicted lung volume was used 18 of 23 patients were distinguished, again with one false positive result.
  • (2) The common divisor for interectopic intervals, ectopic complex interpolation, P-Q and Q-T intervals of the main complex and the presence of a wave on the ascending or descending slope of the R wave in sinus QRS complex were determined.
  • (3) The residual mean-square errors (the divisor being four less than the number of data points, since four parameters are estimated) seem to be unbiased estimators of the variances of the errors.
  • (4) The number of physically acceptable solutions for a given N is omega(N) + 1, where omega(N) is the number of divisors of N. The ground-state energy and entropy for these are calculated.

Minuend


Definition:

  • (n.) The number from which another number is to be subtracted.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The present study evaluated two procedures, Stimulus Manipulation and Delay Feedback Only, for teaching difficult-to-teach students to solve missing minuend problems (i.e., missing number problems starting with a minus sign).