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Definition of Minus sign
1. Noun. A sign indicating the operation of subtraction.
Definition of Minus sign
1. Noun. (mathematics) The symbol ? or - used to denote the operation of subtraction and to indicate that a number is negative. ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Minus Sign
Literary usage of Minus sign
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1894)
"This difference, accordingly, is written down and the minus sign placed ...
In calling this symbol and the symbols formed of a minus sign followed by a ..."
2. A College Algebra by Henry Burchard Fine (1904)
"If their number be even (or 0), give the product, the plus sign; if odd, the
minus sign. The algebraic sum of all these plus and minus products is called ..."
3. Elements of Quaternions by Arthur Sherburne Hardy (1895)
"Hence, the effect of a minus sign before a vector is to reverse its direction.
The conception of a vector, therefore, implies that of its two elements, ..."
4. The Logic and Utility of Mathematics: With the Best Methods of Instruction by Charles Davies (1860)
"... for example, fixed by definition, the power of the minus sign, viz. that any
quantity before which it is written, shall be regarded as to be what we ..."
5. Elements of the Theory of Integers by Joseph Bowden (1903)
"For, every time a minus sign is removed from befor an integer, the sign over the
integer must be changed ; and the same must be done when a minus sign is ..."
6. Elementary Algebra by John Henry Tanner (1904)
"Inclose the last two terms of z'2 + у'2 — г2 in a parenthesis preceded by the
plus sign ; by the minus sign.* 3. Inclose the last three terms of ал; ..."
7. Electromagnetic Theory by Oliver Heaviside (1893)
"Abolition of the minus sign of Quaternions. § 102. ... AD positive scalar products
have the minus sign prefixed ; there is thus a want ..."
8. The Strains in Framed Structures, with Numerous Practical Applications to by Augustus Jay Du Bois (1883)
"A compressive strain is denoted by a plus sign, a tensile by a minus sign.
Since now, the outer forces are all known, both in direction, magnitude and ..."
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