minus sign
the symbol (−) denoting subtraction or a negative quantity.
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From there, tap the green plus sign to add any of the options to your Control Center and use the red minus sign to remove them.
Customize your iPhone by ditching these boring default settings | Harry Guinness | November 8, 2021 | Popular-ScienceIn the screenshot below, you can see Google suggesting the search may want to add a minus sign to the word running in order to filter out those words in their search.
Google now shows why it ranked a specific search result | Barry Schwartz | July 22, 2021 | Search Engine LandTo unearth what you need, put a minus sign in front of any terms you want excluded from your search.
In column 10 where the dates are given, a minus sign indicates the past and a plus sign the future.
Climatic Changes | Ellsworth HuntingtonFor weeks after that, though, I carried four hundred on the books with a minus sign in front.
Shorty McCabe on the Job | Sewell Ford
The minus sign prefixed to a reading means that the variable was placed on the side of the fixed line.
Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 | VariousWhen the temperature has fallen, put a minus sign (-) before the number of degrees of fall.
Practical Exercises in Elementary Meteorology | Robert DeCourcy WardIt was like a bracket preceded by a minus sign, which affected all that was within the bracket.
The Rubicon | E. F. Benson
British Dictionary definitions for minus sign
the symbol –, indicating subtraction or a negative quantity
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