minus sign

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   a sign indicating the operation of subtraction

   Broadersign

Questions about minus sign

What does minus sign mean?

minus sign means "a sign indicating the operation of subtraction".

Is minus sign a common word?

minus 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.