- plus/minus symbol
- noun see plus/minus sign
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
plus/minus symbol
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Plus-minus sign — For other uses, see plus minus (disambiguation). ± The plus minus sign (±) is a mathematical symbol commonly used either to indicate the precision of an approximation, or to indicate a value that can be of either sign. The sign is normally… … Wikipedia
plus/minus sign — noun Date: 1971 the sign ± used to indicate a quantity (as 2 in “the square root of 4 is ±2”) taking on both an algebraically positive value and its negative and to indicate a plus or minus quantity (as 4 in “the population age was 30 ± 4 years”) … New Collegiate Dictionary
Plus-minus — or plus/minus (+/ ) may refer to:*Plus minus sign, a mathematical symbol (±) *Plus/minus, an ice hockey statistic *+/ , an American rock band … Wikipedia
plus-minus sign — noun the symbol ±, meaning plus or minus , used to indicate the precision of an approximation (as in The result is 10 ± 0.3 , meaning the result is somewhere between 10 0.3, that is, 9.7, and 10 + 0.3, that is, 10.3), or as a convenient shorthand … Wiktionary
Plus and minus signs — This article is about the mathematical symbols. For other uses of plus , see Plus (disambiguation). For other uses of minus , see Minus (disambiguation). The plus and minus signs (+ and −) are mathematical symbols used to represent the notions of … Wikipedia
minus — mi|nus1 [ maınəs ] function word ** Minus can be used in the following ways: as a preposition: Seventeen minus nine is eight. The whole family minus John and Darlene was there. as an adjective: It was minus 12 degrees this morning. The teacher… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
minus-plus sign — noun the symbol ∓, meaning minus or plus , used alongside the plus minus sign to show that a negative value is to be taken where the positive value is indicated by the plus minus sign, and vice versa (as in (x nbsp;± nbsp;1) nbsp;/ nbsp;(x nbsp;∓ … Wiktionary
Minus (disambiguation) — Minus may refer to: Minus sign, a mathematical symbol; See Plus and minus signs minus is a Web based file hosting service m nus, a Canadian record label; See Minus (record label) Mínus, an Icelandic band Minus a song by Beck from Odelay Minus a… … Wikipedia
minus — The symbol ( ) that precedes the change figure in a stock table to indicate a closing sale lower than that of the previous day. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary * * * ▪ I. minus mi‧nus 1 [ˈmaɪnəs] preposition used to show that you are taking one… … Financial and business terms
Minus — − Satzzeichen Punkt ( . ) Komma ( , ) Semikolon ( ; ) Doppelpunkt ( : ) … Deutsch Wikipedia
