equal sign

1. 1.

   a sign indicating that the quantities on either side are equal

   Broadersign

Questions about equal sign

What does equal sign mean?

equal sign means "a sign indicating that the quantities on either side are equal".

Is equal sign a common word?

equal sign is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.