Usually means: Symbol indicating subtraction or negativity.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word minus sign:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. minus sign: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. minus sign: Merriam-Webster
  3. minus sign: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. minus sign: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. minus sign: Collins English Dictionary
  6. minus sign: Vocabulary.com
  7. minus sign: Wordnik
  8. minus sign: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. minus sign: Wiktionary
  10. minus sign: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. minus sign: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Minus sign, minus sign: Dictionary.com
  13. Minus sign: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. minus sign: Rhymezone
  15. minus sign: FreeDictionary.org
  16. minus sign: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. minus sign: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. minus sign: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Minus Sign: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. minus sign: The Folk File

(Note: See minus_signs as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (minus sign)

noun:  (arithmetic) The symbol −, used to denote the operation of subtraction or to indicate that a number is negative.

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