'Deduction' definitions:
Definition of 'deduction'
(from WordNet)
noun
A reduction in the gross amount on which a tax is calculated; reduces taxes by the percentage fixed for the taxpayer's income bracket [syn: tax write-off, tax deduction, deduction]
noun
An amount or percentage deducted [syn: deduction, discount]
noun
Something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied); "his resignation had political implications" [syn: deduction, entailment, implication]
noun
Reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect) [syn: deduction, deductive reasoning, synthesis]
noun
The act of subtracting (removing a part from the whole); "he complained about the subtraction of money from their paychecks" [syn: subtraction, deduction] [ant: addition]
noun
The act of reducing the selling price of merchandise [syn: discount, price reduction, deduction]
Definition of 'Deduction'
From: GCIDE
- Deduction \De*duc"tion\, n. [L. deductio: cf. F. d['e]duction.]
- 1. Act or process of deducing or inferring. [1913 Webster]
- The deduction of one language from another. --Johnson. [1913 Webster]
- This process, by which from two statements we deduce a third, is called deduction. --J. R. Seely. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Act of deducting or taking away; subtraction; as, the deduction of the subtrahend from the minuend. [1913 Webster]
- 3. That which is deduced or drawn from premises by a process of reasoning; an inference; a conclusion. [1913 Webster]
- Make fair deductions; see to what they mount. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 4. That which is or may be deducted; the part taken away; abatement; as, a deduction from the yearly rent in compensation for services; deductions from income in calculating income taxes.
- Syn: See Induction. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'deduction'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a fortiori reasoning,
- a posteriori reasoning,
- a priori reasoning,
- abatement,
- ablation,
- abrasion,
- abridgment,
- abstraction,
- accord,
- addition,
- adjunct,
- affairs,
- affiliation,
- affinity,
- agio,
- alleviation,
- alliance,
- allowance,
- analysis,
- approximation,
- assemblage,
- association,
- attenuation,
- Baconian method,
- bank discount,
- bond,
- breakage,
- cash discount,
- chain discount,
- charge-off,
- closeness,
- cogitation,
- combination,
- concession,
- conclusion,
- connectedness,
- connection,
- consequence,
- consequent,
- consideration,
- contemplation,
- contiguity,
- contraction,
- contrariety,
- corollary,
- credit,
- cut,
- dampening,
- damping,
- dealings,
- decrease,
- decrement,
- decrescence,
- deductive reasoning,
- deflation,
- deliberation,
- demonstration,
- depreciation,
- depression,
- derivation,
- diminishment,
- diminution,
- discount,
- discourse,
- discourse of reason,
- discursive reason,
- disjunction,
- dockage,
- drawback,
- dying,
- dying off,
- epagoge,
- erosion,
- extenuation,
- fade-out,
- filiation,
- finding,
- generalization,
- homology,
- hypothesis and verification,
- illation,
- induction,
- inductive reasoning,
- inference,
- intercourse,
- intimacy,
- judgment,
- junction,
- kickback,
- languishment,
- lessening,
- letup,
- liaison,
- link,
- linkage,
- linking,
- logical thought,
- lowering,
- meditation,
- miniaturization,
- minus,
- mitigation,
- musing,
- mutual attraction,
- nearness,
- particularization,
- penalty,
- penalty clause,
- percentage,
- philosophical induction,
- philosophy,
- pondering,
- premium,
- price reduction,
- price-cut,
- proof,
- propinquity,
- proximity,
- purification,
- rapport,
- ratiocination,
- rationalism,
- rationality,
- rationalization,
- rationalizing,
- reason,
- reasonableness,
- reasoning,
- rebate,
- rebatement,
- reduction,
- refinement,
- reflection,
- refund,
- relatedness,
- relation,
- relations,
- relationship,
- relaxation,
- removal,
- result,
- rollback,
- rumination,
- sagging,
- salvage,
- scaling down,
- sequitur,
- setoff,
- similarity,
- simplicity,
- sophistry,
- specious reasoning,
- speculation,
- subduction,
- sublation,
- subtraction,
- sweet reason,
- syllogism,
- syllogistic reasoning,
- sympathy,
- synthesis,
- takeoff,
- taking away,
- tare,
- thinking,
- tie,
- tie-in,
- time discount,
- trade discount,
- tret,
- underselling,
- union,
- weakening,
- withdrawal,
- write-off