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for Plus sign
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Plus \Plus\, a. [L., more; akin to Gr. ?, ?, and E. full. See
Full, a., and cf. Pi[`u], Pleonasm.]
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1. (Math.) More, required to be added; positive, as
distinguished from negative; -- opposed to minus.
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2. Hence, in a literary sense, additional; real; actual.
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Success goes invariably with a certain plus or
positive power. --Emerson.
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Plus sign (Math.), the sign (+) which denotes addition, or
a positive quantity.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
plus sign
n 1: a sign indicating the operation of addition
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