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minuses

minuses is the plural of minus.

minuses is the third-person singular simple present indicative of minus.

Meaning of minus

Noun

minus (plural minuses or minusses)

  1. The minus sign (−).
    • On the third day a Master Barnard brings me up a slate full of plusses, minusses, x, y, z’s, and other letters of the alphabet, in a most amiable algebraical confusion.1835 January, the Sub-Editor [i.e., Edward Howard], “The Life of a Sub-Editor”, in The Metropolitan Magazine, volume XII, number XLV, London: Saunders and Otley, […], page 427
  2. A negative quantity.
  3. A downside or disadvantage.
    • He valued Roderick’s friendship with the highest value he put on anything nowadays. Over the years they had assessed each other’s plusses and minusses and settled for the difference.1989, A[udrey] L[ilian] Barker, The Woman Who Talked to Herself, London: Hutchinson, →ISBN, page 111

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Proper noun capitalized: Minuses

Minuses

  1. (plural) plural of Minus

Phrases with minuses

Questions about minuses

What is minuses the plural of?
Minuses is the plural of minus.
What part of speech is minuses?
Minuses is a proper noun.

Words near minuses in the dictionary

  1. minuscule cursive
  2. minusculely
  3. minuscules
  4. minusculy
  5. minused
  6. minuses
  7. minusing
  8. Minusinsk
  9. minussed
  10. minusses
  11. minussing

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