subtractorcircuit
nounUK /səbˈtræktə ˈsɜːkɪt/
US /səbˈtræktər ˈsɜːrkɪt/
A subtractor circuit is a small part of a machine that takes one number away from another.
The engineer built a subtractor circuit to find the difference between the two signals.
OTHER MEANINGS
2. A digital logic circuit that performs binary subtraction using gates and borrow logic.
The full subtractor circuit handles borrow-in and borrow-out bits.
3. An analog circuit that outputs the voltage difference between two input signals.
The op-amp subtractor circuit produced the difference of the two sensor voltages.
4. A teaching model used to show how computers do subtraction step by step.
Students wired a simple subtractor circuit on the breadboard.