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English
Noun
minus sign (plural minus signs)
- (arithmetic) The symbol −, used to denote the operation of subtraction or to indicate that a number is negative.
Usage notes
- Often in typography (and always in computer programming), the hyphen (-) is used instead of the minus sign (−); in many fonts, the symbols are barely distinguishable or not at all (although the difference is clear in Times Roman). Careful typographers use the minus sign instead of the hyphen.
Translations
symbol used to denote the operation of subtraction and to indicate that a number is negative
- Arabic: نَاقَص m (nāqaṣ)
- Armenian: մինուս (hy) (minus)
- Belarusian: мі́нус m (mínus)
- Bulgarian: ми́нус m (mínus)
- Burmese: အနုတ်လက္ခဏာ (my) (a.nutlakhka.na)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 負號／负号 (zh) (fùhào), 減號／减号 (zh) (jiǎnhào)
- Czech: mínus (cs) n
- Dutch: minteken (nl) n
- Esperanto: minus-signo
- Estonian: miinusmärk (et)
- Finnish: miinusmerkki (fi)
- French: signe moins (fr) m
- Georgian: მინუსი (minusi)
- German: Minuszeichen (de) n
- Greek: πλην (el) n (plin)
- Hungarian: mínuszjel (hu)
- Icelandic: mínusmerki n, mínus m
- Italian: segno meno m
- Japanese: マイナス (ja) (mainasu), マイナス記号 (mainasu kigō)
- Korean: 마이너스 (ko) (maineoseu), 미누스 (minuseu) (North Korea)
- Macedonian: минус m (minus)
- Norman: mains m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: minustegn n
- Nynorsk: minusteikn n
- Persian: علامت منها ('alâmat-e menhâ)
- Polish: minus (pl) m
- Portuguese: sinal de menos m, menos (pt) m, negativo (pt) m
- Romanian: semn minus
- Russian: ми́нус (ru) m (mínus), знак ми́нус m (znak mínus)
- Spanish: signo menos m, negativo (es) m
- Swedish: minustecken (sv) n, minus (sv) n
- Tagalog: tandang bawas, tanda ng palabawasan
- Tajik: аломати тарҳ (tg) (alomati tarh)
- Telugu: ఋణసంజ్ఞ (r̥ṇasañjña)
- Thai: เครื่องหมายลบ (krʉ̂ʉang-mǎai-lóp)
- Turkish: eksi (tr)
- Ukrainian: мі́нус m (mínus)
- Vietnamese: dấu âm
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