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augend

augend

9.9
A number that another number is added to
  • noun
  • /ˈɔːɡɛnd/
  • Specialized
: augendo
  • In the equation 5 + 3, the number 5 is the augend that the other number is added to.

Examples

  • In basic arithmetic, the augend is the first number you see when performing addition, like in 10 + 8.

  • When adding 7 and 4, the number 7 serves as the augend in this operation.

  • The BAC chip is also referred to as the skew coder chip because the twelve augends were 2-skew or 2-1 through 2-12.

    Academic text (1996)

Synonyms

summand
vsaugend
  • Specialized
1 7.9

A number you add to others to get a total

is the number that receives another number in the addition operation

Surface Forms

augend singular
augends plural

Morphology

augend = augment (opaque) = aug + end

Although historically analyzable as a verb stem plus a Latin '-end' nominalizer, the suffix is non‑productive in modern English and the meaning is a specialized mathematical term not transparently derived for typical learners.

Etymology

Augend comes from the Latin root aug- meaning 'to increase', seen in the familiar word augment. So an augend is the number that is made bigger when another number called the addend is added.