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minusses

minusses is the plural of minus.

minusses 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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Questions about minusses

What is minusses the plural of?
Minusses is the plural of minus.

Words near minusses in the dictionary

  1. minused
  2. minuses
  3. minusing
  4. Minusinsk
  5. minussed
  6. minusses
  7. minussing
  8. minutage
  9. minutary
  10. minute
  11. minute bell

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