minus

[mi·nus]

Use the word minus to mean "less" or "with the subtraction of." When it's minus fifteen degrees outside, it's fifteen below zero or fifteen degrees less than zero.

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Less; requiring to be subtracted; negative; as, a minus quantity.

Noun
an arithmetic operation in which the difference between two numbers is calculated; "the subtraction of three from four leaves one"; "four minus three equals one"

Adjective S.
involving disadvantage or harm; "minus (or negative) factors"

Adjective
on the negative side or lower end of a scale; "minus 5 degrees"; "a grade of B minus"


a.
Less; requiring to be subtracted; negative; as, a minus quantity.


Minus

Mi"nus , a. [L. See Minor, and cf. Mis- pref. from the French.] (Math.) Less; requiring to be subtracted; negative; as, a minus quantity. Minus sign (Math.), the sign [-] denoting minus, or less, prefixed to negative quantities, or quantities to be subtracted. See Negative sign, under Negative.

Less; requiring to be subtracted; negative; as, a minus quantity.

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Usage Examples

The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C - not much good for defrosting the pizza, let alone cooking it.

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

I'd still like to see 'Survivor' minus the planned show-biz parts. That would be the purest form of show business - I want to see someone so hungry that they eat somebody else's foot.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

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