Character variations
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Text style is forced with ⟨︎⟩ and emoji style with ⟨️⟩.
Two lines crossed in the middle : one vertical line and one horizontal line.
From a ligature of Latin et ( “ and ” ) . Compare & and ⁊ of same meaning.
+ (English symbol name plus sign or plus )
( arithmetic , algebra ) Addition , additive operation .
3 + 2 = 5
( mathematics ) Explicitly indicates that the next number is positive .
+5 is different from −5
( informal ) "Or more"; indicates that a number is the minimum quantity or amount.
This project is going to take 10+ years to complete. ( 10 or more years )
( mathematics ) From the positive side.
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{\displaystyle \lim _{x\to a^{+}}f(x)}
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{\displaystyle \lim _{x\downarrow a}\,f(x)}
( mathematics ) A disjoint union , a coproduct .
( mathematics , logic ) An inclusive disjunction .
( genetics ) A wild type .
( botany ) A grafted hybrid .[ 1]
( programming ) A string concatenation in some programming languages (that might be ambiguous with an additive operation).
"My name is " + name + ". I am " + age + " years old."
( regular expressions ) Detects one or more occurrences of the preceding element .
The string ab+c
matches "abc", "abbc", "abbbc", and so on, but not "ac".
( chess notation) Check .
A placeholder standing for the international call prefix in phone numbers.
Sure, call me if you want. My number is + 496919725.
( medicine ) An affirmative result from a laboratory test .
( electricity ) An anode .
Indicating north .
( music ) Augmented .
The + symbol is called the plus sign in English (see there for translations).
( antonym(s) of “ addition or positiveness ” ) : - or − , sometimes ÷
+
( computing ) When placed between key names, indicates that they should be pressed simultaneously.
Press Ctrl+ C to copy!
( siglum , informal ) and
For quotations using this term, see Citations:+ .
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( text messaging , slang ) more
^ Simpson, Niki (2010 February) “Botanical symbols: a new symbol set for new images”, in Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society [1] , volume 162 , number 2, →DOI , archived from the original on 2021-12-19 , pages 117–129
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Abbreviation of and .
In stenoscript, this is only used for the conjunction 'and'. The sound sequence /Vnd/ is written — .
This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA then please add some! Particularly: “Mandarin”
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( neologism , Covid-19) denotes the immigration policy where the preceding number is the number of days required for quarantine and the following number is the number of days for medical monitoring
7+3 (the policy of) 7 days of quarantine followed by 3 days of medical monitoring