单词 | borrow |
释义 | borrow [`bä·rō] CIVIL ENGINEERING Earth material such as sand and gravel that is taken from one location to be used as fill at another. MATHEMATICS An arithmetically negative carry; it occurs in direct subtraction by raising the low-order digit of the minuend by one unit of the next-higher-order digit; for example, when subtracting 67 from 92, a tens digit is borrowed from the 9, to raise the 2 to a factor of 12; the 7 of 67 is then subtracted from the 12 to yield 5 as the units digit of the difference; the 6 is then subtracted from 8, or 9-1, yielding 2 as the tens digit of the difference. |
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