2. Noun. comedown ¹
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Definition of Bringdown
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bringdown
Literary usage of Bringdown
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dansk-norsk-engelsk ordbog by Anton Larsen (1880)
"... ri to descend; fe $)ale. , «.t. to flutter down. , vi to flow down, float down.
', vt to move down, bringdown. -ntng, c. moving down. ..."
2. General view of the agriculture of the county of Sussex by Arthur Young (1808)
"bringdown ....,£.810 6 Twelve weeks' grass, of additional^ value (lhat is, 3*.
... bringdown £-810 6 Six months' straw, at Is. the third £ irn winter, ..."
3. An Introduction to the Elements of Algebra: Designed for the Use of Those by Leonhard Euler, John Farrar (1821)
"We then bringdown the last figure of the dividend, 6, and divide, this third
partial dividend by the divisor, 3, and get 2 for the last figure of the ..."
4. Pike's System of Arithmetick Abridged: Designed to Facilitate the Study of by Nicolas Pike, Dudley Leavitt (1827)
"... hand of which we bringdown the next figure of the dividend, viz. ... we place
Oin the quotient, and bringdown 7 to the 1, and proceed as at first. ..."
5. The Youth's Assistant in Theoretick and Practical Arithmetick by Zadock Thompson (1826)
"Subtract the square of the root already found, from the left hand period, and.to the
remainder bringdown the next period for a dividend. ..."
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