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Definition of Plusses
1. plus [n] - See also: plus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plusses
Literary usage of Plusses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Revised Record of the Constitutional Convention of the State of New York by William H. Steele, Charles Elliott Fitch (1900)
"Gentlemen come here, as did the last speaker, and take certain counties which
are Democratic and show plusses, large plusses which are unavoidable. ..."
2. Leveling and Earthwork by Joseph Baker Davis (1906)
"Treat these cases the same as the cross sections at any other plusses. 30.
The plusses should all be measured, both the old and the new, ..."
3. Railroad Location, Surveys and Estimates by Fred Lavis (1906)
"At the sites of all bridges or viaducts, extra care by measuring in the plusses
and getting the smaller inequalities should be taken, so that the profile at ..."
4. Railroad, Location, Surveys and Estimates by Fred Lavis (1906)
"At the sites of all bridges or viaducts, extra care by measuring in the plusses
and getting the smaller inequalities should be taken, so that the profile at ..."
5. Handbook of Cost Data for Contractors and Engineers: A Reference Book Giving by Halbert Powers Gillette (1910)
"Right of way fences were carefully located by stations and plusses on line and
by distance out at all points where any change in direction or distance out ..."
6. The Field Practice of Railway Location by Willard Beahan (1909)
"He must previously check his subtraction made in the field for elevation of
stations and plusses, the rodman calling off the notes. ..."
7. Text Book on Railroad Surveying by George Wellington Pickels, Carroll Carson Wiley (1913)
"... highways, streams, and property lines, and recording the plusses at which they
cross the line; and to keep the notes of the transit party. ..."
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