Minus is the sign used to take away numbers. It also shows when a number is below zero, like minus five.
Five minus two equals three.
Temperature is minus five degrees.
Minus means less than zero. We use it to talk about numbers below zero or bad amounts like debts.
The temperature is minus ten today.
He has a minus balance in his account.
Minus means a bad part or problem. We use it when talking about things we do not like.
The minus of this phone is its battery life.
That plan has some minuses too.
To minus means to take one number away from another by subtracting. It is a verb used mainly in math.
You minus ten from fifty to get forty.
She minused the costs from the total.
Minus is used like a preposition to show one amount is less than another. It often appears in talking about scores or debts.
The team scored five minus two points.
I have minus three apples in debt.
Minus can mean a bad quality of a person or thing. It shows a negative or weak feature.
That’s a big minus for his job application.
Her attitude is a minus in this team.
Minus can represent negation in logic or programming. It changes a value to its opposite or NOT condition.
Minus means NOT in some computer codes.
Use minus before variable to get opposite value.
