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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.
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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. 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. He had a good and mild countenance, without expression -- a mathematician minus the pride. |
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