Minus

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. edat Made less or reduced by (followed by an expression of number or quantity).

   “Seven minus two is five.”

2. edat Without; deprived of.

   “I walked out minus my coat.”

3. isim 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.”

4. isim A negative quantity.
5. isim 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.”

6. sıfat Being a negative quantity; pertaining to a deficit or reduction.

   “a minus number”

7. sıfat That is below zero by (a specified amount) on a scale.

   “minus seven degrees”

8. sıfat Worse off than before; out of pocket.

   “The races being finished, we left Epsom for London, Mordaunt's natural vile temper not being at all improved by being three hundred pounds minus by the week's speculation […] .”

9. sıfat Ranking just below (a designated rating).

   “He got a grade of B minus for his essay.”

10. fiil To subtract.

    “For example, in solving the following equation, x + 4 = 9, the child using the negating mechanism will reason, "minussing 4" undoes "plussing 4" therefore, if x + 4 = 9 then x = 5 and will not see any point in using any intermediate steps.”

11. özel isim A surname.