minus sign

== English == === Pronunciation === === Noun === minus sign (plural minus signs) (arithmetic) The symbol −, used to denote the operation of subtraction or to indicate that a number is negative. ==== Usage notes ==== Often in typography (and always in computer programming), the hyphen (-) is used instead of the minus sign (−); in many fonts, the symbols are barely distinguishable or not at all (although the difference is clear in Times Roman). Careful typographers use the minus sign instead of the hyphen. ==== Translations ==== === See also === division sign multiplication sign plus sign