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noun Arithmetic.

the symbol (−) denoting subtraction or a negative quantity.

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Origin of minus sign

First recorded in 1660–70

Words nearby minus sign

minuet, Minuit, minus, minuscule, minus sight, minus sign, minute, minute gun, minute hand, minutely, Minuteman

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How to use minus sign in a sentence

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-Science
In 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 Land
To unearth what you need, put a minus sign in front of any terms you want excluded from your search.
13 Hacks to Improve Your Google Search|Nina Strochlic|September 15, 2013|DAILY BEAST
In column 10 where the dates are given, a minus sign indicates the past and a plus sign the future.
Climatic Changes|Ellsworth Huntington

For 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|Various
When the temperature has fallen, put a minus sign (-) before the number of degrees of fall.
Practical Exercises in Elementary Meteorology|Robert DeCourcy Ward
It 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

minus sign

noun

the symbol –, indicating subtraction or a negative quantity

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