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What's the meaning of "drop" in following sentence:

"the term can be dropped from the numerator"

epimorphic
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    Removed I guess, depending on the context – servabat Jun 13 '15 at 17:12
  • You'd have to give. More specific context to be sure, but yes, ignored or eliminated, depending on context. – Thomas Andrews Jun 13 '15 at 17:15
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    There is no specific use of "drop" in mathematics. Sometimes it is used in sentences as "we can drop this hypothesis". I have no idea on what would be the meaning in "drop from the denominator". – Crostul Jun 13 '15 at 17:15
  • Some additional context would greatly improve the answerability of this question. What's the fractional expression? Which "term" is being "dropped"? – epimorphic Jun 13 '15 at 17:29
  • More detail is needed and I cannot say for sure but I take the word dropped to mean ignored by choice and not by removed by some process such as cancellation. – Karl Jun 13 '15 at 19:00

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"Dropped" just means deleted. If the numerator is $A+B+C$ and one replaces it with $A+B$, one has dropped the third term from the numerator.

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