plus sign

noun

: a sign + denoting addition or a positive quantity

Examples of plus sign in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Tap the green plus sign Add button next to the Screen Recording option. Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 12 Mar. 2024 How to get it: On an iPhone, add new widgets by long tapping on any empty space and selecting the plus sign in the top left corner. Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 3 May 2023 For example, Sutherland noted that y2 = x3 – 11x + 6 has conductor 17, but flipping the minus sign to a plus sign, y2 = x3 + 11x + 6 has conductor 100,736. Lyndie Chiou, Quanta Magazine, 5 Mar. 2024 Tap the plus sign at the bottom to create a new entry and start typing. Brenda Stolyar, WIRED, 12 Feb. 2024 The screen will dim, the Snipping toolbar will appear at the top of the screen and your cursor will become a plus sign. Ken Colburn, The Arizona Republic, 29 Jan. 2024 Further Reading Review: New Atari 2600+ doesn’t justify its plus sign My Atari 400 story goes a little something like this. Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 16 Jan. 2024 Use a ruler to draw a plus sign and then an X (like a compass). Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Nov. 2023 And just as there are naming trends for restaurants (en vogue right now: two-word monikers connected by a plus sign), so, too, have particular conventions fallen in and out of favor in real estate. Rachel Kurzius, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

1820, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of plus sign was in 1820

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“Plus sign.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plus%20sign. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.

Kids Definition

plus sign

noun
: a sign + used especially in mathematics to indicate addition (as in 8 + 6 = 14) or a positive quantity (as in +10°)

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