Hypertext Webster Gateway: "plus"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Plus \Plus\, a. [L., more; akin to Gr. ?, ?, and E. full. See
{Full}, a., and cf. {Pi[`u]}, {Pleonasm}.]
1. (Math.) More, required to be added; positive, as
distinguished from negative; -- opposed to {minus}.
2. Hence, in a literary sense, additional; real; actual.
Success goes invariably with a certain plus or
positive power. --Emerson.
{Plus sign} (Math.), the sign (+) which denotes addition, or
a positive quantity.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
plus
adj 1: on the positive side or higher end of a scale; "a plus
value"; "temperature of plus 5 degrees"; "a grade of C
plus" [ant: {minus}]
2: involving advantage or good; "a plus (or positive) factor"
[syn: {positive}]
n 1: a useful or valuable quality [syn: {asset}] [ant: {liability}]
2: the arithmetic operation of summing; calculating the sum of
two or more numbers; "the summation of four and three
gives seven"; "four plus three equals seven" [syn: {summation},
{addition}]
Additional Hypertext Webster Gateway Lookup
Gateway by dict@stokkie.net
stock only wrote the gateway and does not have any control over the contents;
see the Webster Gateway FAQ,
and also the Back-end/database links and credits.