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minus sign (plural minus signs)

1. (arithmetic) The symbol −, used to denote the operation of subtraction or to indicate that a number is negative.

• 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.

symbol used to denote the operation of subtraction and to indicate that a number is negative

• Arabic: نَاقَص m (nāqaṣ)

• Armenian: մինուս (hy) (minus)

• Azerbaijani: minus, çıxma, çıxma işarəsi

• 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

• Swahili: alama ya kutoa

• Swedish: minustecken (sv) n, minus (sv) n

• Tagalog: tandang bawas, tanda ng palabawasan

• Tajik: аломати тарҳ (tg) (alomat-i tarh)

• Telugu: ఋణసంజ్ఞ (r̥ṇasañjña)

• Thai: เครื่องหมายลบ (krʉ̂ʉang-mǎai-lóp)

• Turkish: eksi işareti (tr)

• Ukrainian: мі́нус m (mínus)

• Vietnamese: dấu âm

• Welsh: arwydd minws

• division sign

• multiplication sign

• plus sign