plus
pronunciation
How to pronounce plus in British English:
UK [plʌs]
How to pronounce plus in American English:
US [ plʌs]
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- Noun:
- a useful or valuable quality
- the arithmetic operation of summing; calculating the sum of two or more numbers
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- Adjective:
- on the positive side or higher end of a scale
- involving advantage or good
Word Origin
- plus (n.)
- 1570s, the oral rendering of the arithmetical sign +, from Latin plus "more, in greater number, more often" (comparative of multus "much"), altered (by influence of minus) from *pleos, from PIE *pele- (1) "to fill" (see poly-). As a preposition, between two numbers to indicate addition, from 1660s. [Barnhart writes that this sense "did not exist in Latin and probably originated in commercial language of the Middle Ages."] Placed after a whole number to indicate "and a little more," it is attested from 1902. As a conjunction, "and," it is American English colloquial, attested from 1968. As a noun meaning "an advantage" from 1791. Plus fours (1921) were four inches longer in the leg than standard knickerbockers, to produce an overhang, originally a style associated with golfers. The plus sign itself has been well-known since at least late 15c. and is perhaps an abbreviation of Latin et (see et cetera).
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Example
- 1. The full home automation packages costs $ 68.99 a month plus a $ 199 one-time activation fee .
- 2. Our product is 560 scientific papers plus countless talks and other things , but really the papers .
- 3. That 's big progress especially considering oades 's staff consists of only two other people , plus her assistant .
- 4. The aaa portion of a clo yields around libor plus 1.3 % .
- 5. It 's not christ plus the right job .