What does plus mean?

Definitions for plus
plʌsplus

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word plus.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. asset, plusnoun

    a useful or valuable quality

  2. summation, addition, plusadjective

    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"

  3. plusadjective

    on the positive side or higher end of a scale

    "a plus value"; "temperature of plus 5 degrees"; "a grade of C plus"

  4. plus, positiveadjective

    involving advantage or good

    "a plus (or positive) factor"

Wiktionary

  1. plusnoun

    A positive quantity.

  2. plusnoun

    An asset or useful addition.

    He is a real plus to the team.

  3. plusnoun

    A plus sign: +.

  4. plusadjective

    Being positive rather than negative or zero.

    -2 * -2 = +4 ("minus 2 times minus 2 equals plus four")

  5. plusadjective

    Positive, or involving advantage.

    He is a plus factor.

  6. plusadjective

    Electrically positive.

    A battery has both a plus pole and a minus pole.

  7. plusconjunction

    sum of the previous one and the following one.

  8. plusconjunction

    with; having in addition

    I've won a holiday to France plus five hundred Euros' spending money!

  9. plusconjunction

    and also; in addition

    Let's go home now, it's late, plus I'm not feeling too well.

  10. Etymology: From plus.

ChatGPT

  1. plus

    Plus is a mathematical term that represents the operation of addition, often denoted by the symbol (+). It combines two numbers or quantities into a single sum. Plus can also indicate a positive state or condition, or emphasize an additional advantage or positive aspect of something.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Plusadjective

    more, required to be added; positive, as distinguished from negative; -- opposed to minus

  2. Plusadjective

    hence, in a literary sense, additional; real; actual

  3. Etymology: [L., more; akin to Gr. , , and E. full. See Full, a., and cf. Pi, Pleonasm.]

Wikidata

  1. Plus

    Plus is an interbank network that covers all Visa credit, debit, and prepaid cards, as well as ATM cards issued by various banks worldwide. Currently, there are one million Plus-linked ATMs in 170 countries worldwide. Plus cards can be linked in the following ways: as a standalone network, linked with a local interbank network and/or linked with any Visa product displaying the Visa flag on the front. Currently, there are 144 million proprietary Plus cards, not including a number of cards which have Plus as a secondary network. Plus is widely used as a local interbank network most common in the United States where networks such as STAR, NYCE and Pulse also compete. It is also used in Canada, though it is significantly smaller than Interac there, and in places such as India and Indonesia where there are many interbank networks. The main competitor of Plus is Cirrus, which is offered by Visa rival MasterCard.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Plus

    plus, adj. more: to be added: positive.—n. the sign (+) prefixed to positive quantities, and set between quantities or numbers to be added together: the sign of addition—opp. to Minus. [L. plus, more.]

Editors Contribution

  1. plusnoun

    A plural programming leader in a book used by a speaker to refer to himself or herself and one or more other people as the objective of a verb or preposition. 1.) With the addition of being together with positive ones better than before an advantage.

    Man and woman together as husband and wife equals up to be a plus in God's eyes.

    Etymology: Blessing


    Submitted by Tehorah_Elyon on April 9, 2024  

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'plus' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1757

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'plus' in Written Corpus Frequency: #657

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of plus in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of plus in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of plus in a Sentence

  1. Robert Charles:

    That means you’ve got 73,000-plus that you really should have been vetting and that takes time.

  2. Meredith Brackney.Independent voter Anne Santos:

    That is a plus for me. 'Cause that means that Jason Crow is still wanting my vote, he is very interested in what the regular person wants. I guess yeah, I think he would be more in touch with the everyday person.

  3. Ben Smith:

    When we published the Steele Dossier in 2017, we were met with outrage from many corners -- a major news anchor and President President Donald Trump both deemed it' fake news' ; and several Russian businessmen, plus Michael Cohen, sued for defamation, as we have said from the start, a document that had been circulating at the highest levels of government, under active investigation by The FBI, and briefed to two successive presidents, is clearly the subject of' official action.' Moreover, its publication has contributed to the the American people's understanding of what is happening in their country and their government.

  4. Stafford Broumand:

    Throughout my career, over the last 20-plus years, I have seen a rise and fall -- pardon the pun -- in the size of breast implants. In the '90s and 2000s, for my practice, implant sizes were larger. Patients were requesting larger breast implants. Today, patients' requests have moderated somewhat, what is stable, in reality, are none of our procedures or surgeries.

  5. Mark Sanford:

    We always have a big crowd at our farm for Thanksgiving, sort of a family-plus event, and so I invited him to come down, he brought his girlfriend.

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