plus : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: plus	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for plus
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
plus adj on the positive side or higher end of a scale; "a plus value"; "temperature of plus 5 degrees"; "a grade of C plus" Antonym(s): minus involving advantage or good; "a plus (or positive) factor" Synonym(s): plus, positive n a useful or valuable quality Synonym(s): asset, plus [ant: liability] 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" Synonym(s): summation, addition, plus
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Plus \Plus\, a. [L., more; akin to Gr. [?], [?], and E. full. See {Full}, a., and cf. {Pi[97]}, {Pleonasm}.] 1. (Math.) More, required to be added; positive, as distinguished from negative; -- opposed to {minus}. 2. Hence, in a literary sense, additional; real; actual. Success goes invariably with a certain plus or positive power. --Emerson. {Plus sign} (Math.), the sign (+) which denotes addition, or a positive quantity.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
PLUS Late 60's. Machine-oriented systems language used internally by Univac.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
plus + Common: {ITU-T}: plus; add. Rare: cross; {INTERCAL}: intersection.