minus sign
the symbol (−) denoting subtraction or a negative quantity.
Origin of minus sign
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How to use minus sign in a sentence
To unearth what you need, put a minus sign in front of any terms you want excluded from your search.
In column 10 where the dates are given, a minus sign indicates the past and a plus sign the future.
Climatic Changes | Ellsworth HuntingtonFor weeks after that, though, I carried four hundred on the books with a minus sign in front.
Shorty McCabe on the Job | Sewell FordThe minus sign prefixed to a reading means that the variable was placed on the side of the fixed line.
Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 | VariousWhen the temperature has fallen, put a minus sign (-) before the number of degrees of fall.
Practical Exercises in Elementary Meteorology | Robert DeCourcy Ward
It was like a bracket preceded by a minus sign, which affected all that was within the bracket.
The Rubicon | E. F. Benson
British Dictionary definitions for minus sign
the symbol –, indicating subtraction or a negative quantity
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