英语词汇“minus”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	minus
释义	mi·nus I. \ˈmīnəs\ preposition Etymology: Middle English mynus, from Latin minus, neuter of minor smaller, less — more at minor 1. : diminished by : with the subtraction or deduction of : less < seven minus four equals three > < list price minus the discount > < his ideas added up to Communism minus violence — Hallam Tennyson > — compare plus 2. : deprived of : having lost : wanting : without < came out of the army minus a hand — Drew Middleton > < she met him, minus the book, but carrying a … balloon — Phil Stong > II. noun (-es) 1. : minus sign < rendered quantitative by the use of pluses, minuses, and marks denoting extreme degrees of the behavior in question — F.H.Allport > 2. : a negative quantity < an overdose of philosophical … conclusions and a minus of historical or other data — J.B.Mason > 3. : something (as a deficiency or defect) held to resemble a negative quantity < over against these advantages outside critics set a great minus — New Republic > III. adjective 1. a. : requiring subtraction < the minus sign > b. : algebraically negative < a minus quantity > 2. : having negative qualities or characteristics < a boy … might live in a minus neighborhood but not be a delinquent — Edwin Powers & Helen Witmer > < plus or minus reactions to women … or men with beards — Jerome Frank > 3. a. : reacting sexually to a morphologically indistinguished but physiologically separable plus form — used of lower fungi in which maleness and femaleness are indeterminable as such; compare heterothallic, mating type b. : of, relating to, or exhibiting such a sexual character 4. : of lesser quality than — used postpositively < hesitated to give it a grade so high as C minus — American Literature > 5. : smaller than a specified size < stocks of minus 2-inch stone — Pit & Quarry > < all powders were minus 200 mesh — American Journal of Veterinary Research > 6. : absorbing principally light of its own hue — used of subtractive color primaries
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