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📖 Определения и значения для слова minus

📒 used when you subtract (= take away) one number or thing from another one

  • Seven minus three is four (7 − 3 = 4).
  • the former Soviet Union, minus the Baltic republics and Georgia

📒 used to express temperature below zero degrees

  • It was minus ten.
  • The temperature dropped to minus 28 degrees centigrade (−28°C).

📒 without something that was there before

  • We're going to be minus a car for a while.
  • The group found itself minus a bass player.

📒 used when the number mentioned may actually be more or less by a particular amount

  • The margin of error was plus or minus three percentage points.
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