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minus
1. 
a. indicating or involving subtraction
b. having a value or designating a quantity less than zero
2. on the negative part of a scale or coordinate axis
3. Education slightly below the standard of a particular grade
4. Botany designating the strain of a fungus that can only undergo sexual reproduction with a plus strain
5. denoting a negative electric charge
6. short for minus sign
7. a negative quantity
minus [′mī·nəs]
(mathematics)
AminusBmeans that the quantityBis to be subtracted from the quantityA.
minus - -

Common: dash; ITU-T: hyphen; ITU-T: minus. Rare: INTERCAL: worm; option; dak; bithorpe.
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The words of some people might generally be written with a minus sign after them, the minus meaning that the personality of the speaker subtracted from, rather than added to, their weight; but Rebecca's words might always have borne the plus sign.
Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm by Wiggin, Kate Douglas View in context
He commenced dressing at top by donning his beaver hat, a very tall one, by the by, and then --still minus his trowsers -- he hunted up his boots.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
He had a good and mild countenance, without expression -- a mathematician minus the pride.
Ten Years Later by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
 
 
 
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