Deduction Definition

dĭ-dŭkshən
deductions
noun
deductions
A deducting or being deducted; subtraction.
Webster's New World
A sum or amount deducted or allowed to be deducted as, specif., from taxable income.
Webster's New World
Something for which such an amount may be deducted from taxable income.
Webster's New World
The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.
American Heritage
The act or process of deducing; reasoning from the general to the specific, or from premises to a logically valid conclusion; also, a conclusion reached by such reasoning.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Deduction

Noun

Singular:
deduction
Plural:
deductions

Origin of Deduction

  • From Middle French déduction, from Latin deductio

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Deduction Sentence Examples

  • This deduction is not in fact true.

  • More important is his deduction of equivalent weights, i.e.

  • During the last two centuries deduction has gone steadily out, and psychology come in.

  • For a Frenchman that deduction was indubitable.

  • Thus in the Rechtslehre and Sittenlehre, the multiplicity of egos is deduced, and with this deduction the first form of the Wissenschaftslehre appeared to end.

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Words Starting With

DDEDED

Words Ending With

NONION

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Words Starting With D and Ending With N

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