Meanings of subtractive in English

It seems logical that programmers would want and, or, and subtractive searching.

However, a comparative analysis of subtractive and additive CAD-CAM manufacturing techniques is lacking.

The remainder of the subtractive hybridization fragments displayed no similarity to GenBank sequences.

Those white colonies were selected to construct the suppression subtractive library.

Three subtractive libraries consisting of 3456 clones were established and enriched for oocyte-specific transcripts.

In Eastern culture, meaning is based on subtractive mechanisms, similar to those of mixing light.

Conclusion: Suppression subtractive hybridization allows rapid and easy construction of virulence-related gene library of S. mutans.

It suggested that suppression subtractive hybridization happened indeed.

I wish to find the means to isolate the problem in order to eliminate subtractive surgery entirely.

Then the suppression subtractive hybridization was carried out, and the efficiency of ligation and subtraction detected respectively.

We carried out suppression subtractive hybridization to identify variable expression of genes linked to HCC with HCV infection.

Every little blot and bleed of his watercolours, every progressive overlay of subtractive colour is worth lingering over.

We used a suppression subtractive hybridization approach to study grapevine's reactions to the first stages of A. mellea infection.

We have combined suppressive subtractive hybridization with in situ hybridization to identify genes expressed at early stages of pancreas development.

Suppressive subtractive hybridization-PCR methods have identified several genes that are differentially expressed as a consequence of prior estrogen and progesterone treatment.

Recent suppressive subtractive hybridization analysis on human atherosclerotic plaque-derived RNA revealed genes upregulated in plaques with a thrombus versus stable plaques.