Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

plus-minus sign

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.92 in modern English

Syllables: plus-mi-nus sign
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

the symbol ±, meaning "plus or minus", used to indicate the precision of an approximation (as in "The result is 10 ± 0.3", meaning the result is anywhere in the inclusive range from 9.7 to 10.3), or as a convenient shorthand for a quantity with two possible values of opposing sign and identical magnitude (as in "The roots of the equation x²-4=0 are ±2").

Inflected Forms

plus-minus signs (plural)

Phrases

minus-plus sign

Frequently Paired Words

minus-plus sign

Questions

What does plus-minus sign mean?: the symbol ±, meaning "plus or minus", used to indicate the precision of an approximation (as in "The result is 10 ± 0.3", meaning the result is anywhere in the inclusive range from 9.7 to 10.3), or as a convenient shorthand for a quantity with two possible values of opposing sign and identical magnitude (as in "The roots of the equation x²-4=0 are ±2").

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