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minus sign
The minus sign (-) is the subtract symbol in programming and on calculator keyboards. For example, 10 - 7 means subtract 7 from 10. It is also used in command line syntax for a switch. For example, in the PKUNZIP statement pkunzip lotstuff -d, the -d is a switch that tells the program to create the original Directory structure that is stored in the .ZIP file. See forward slash.
minus sign
the symbol --, indicating subtraction or a negative quantity
minus sign [′mī·nəs ‚sīn]
(mathematics)
subtraction sign


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Much of the time, however, using just plus and minus signs and double inverted commas will be sufficient to narrow down the search.
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NINETY-FIVE, despite having ten numbers to work with, fails just as ONE through SIX did; one cannot allocate plus and minus signs to 14,9,14,5,20,25,6,9,22,5 so that positive numbers add to 112 and negative ones to 17.
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Dealers chalked up a long list of list of minus signs alongside the prices.
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