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Minus sign   /mˈaɪnəs saɪn/   Listen
Minus sign

noun
1.
A sign indicating the operation of subtraction.






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"Minus sign" Quotes from Famous Books



... between Robert Ferguson and his mother, and seemed to reassure himself; but he was careful to choose a place on the beach where he could keep an eye on the porch. He was talking to Elizabeth in his anxious way, about his work, and how soon his income would be large enough for them to marry. "The minus sign expresses it now," he said; "I could kick myself when I think that, at twenty-six, my mother has to pay my washwoman!" Their engagement had continued to accentuate the difference in the development of these two; David's manhood ...
— The Iron Woman • Margaret Deland



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