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Deduction   /dɪdˈəkʃən/   Listen
Deduction

noun
1.
A reduction in the gross amount on which a tax is calculated; reduces taxes by the percentage fixed for the taxpayer's income bracket.  Synonyms: tax deduction, tax write-off.
2.
An amount or percentage deducted.  Synonym: discount.
3.
Something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied).  Synonyms: entailment, implication.
4.
Reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect).  Synonyms: deductive reasoning, synthesis.
5.
The act of subtracting (removing a part from the whole).  Synonym: subtraction.
6.
The act of reducing the selling price of merchandise.  Synonyms: discount, price reduction.



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"Deduction" Quotes from Famous Books



... Canon Holmes, of India, who more than twenty-five years ago called attention to the inferential character of the average man's faith in God. To most people God is an inference, not a reality. He is a deduction from evidence which they consider adequate; but He remains personally unknown to the individual. "He must be," they say, "therefore we believe He is." Others do not go even so far as this; they know of Him only by hearsay. They have never bothered to think ...
— The Pursuit of God • A. W. Tozer

... retorted. "And it won't be a guess. It will be a deduction. You were reprimanded for ...
— The Iron Heel • Jack London

... communicated at once with the local management. But as local managements of provincial theatres shape their existences so as to avoid responsibilities of any kind save the maintenance of their bars and the deduction of their percentages from the box-office receipts, Paul knew that it was ludicrous to expect it to interest itself in the correspondence of an obscure member of a fourth-rate company which had once played to tenth-rate business ...
— The Fortunate Youth • William J. Locke

... have now proved the above two theorems. Another pretty deduction from the theory of square numbers is, that any number whose square is the sum of two squares, is itself the ...
— The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll • Stuart Dodgson Collingwood

... form must be taken from nature; but it is an art of long deduction and great experience to know how ...
— Seven Discourses on Art • Joshua Reynolds


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