a photographic process in which all but the desired colours are removed by passing the illuminating light through subtractive filters
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Examples of 'subtractive process' in a sentence
subtractive process
However, only the subtractive process plays a major role in setting the duration of the silent phase.
Joël Tabak, John Rinzel, Richard Bertram 2011, 'Quantifying the relative contributions of divisive and subtractive feedback to rhythmgeneration.', PLoS Computational Biologyhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3080843?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)