Usually means: Indicates range around a value.
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  1. plus or minus: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. plus or minus: Merriam-Webster
  3. plus or minus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Plus or minus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. plus or minus: Wiktionary

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  1. A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Plus or Minus: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

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Definitions from Wiktionary (plus or minus)

▸ adverb:  Approximately; more or less.

Similar:
±, positive or negative, addition or subtraction, sign, roughly, give, term, est, give or take, quadrinomial, more...

Phrases:
The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two, more...

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Similar:
±, positive or negative, addition or subtraction, sign, roughly, give, term, est, give or take, quadrinomial, more...

Phrases:
The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two, more...



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