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negative sign

n
(Mathematics) the symbol (–) used to indicate a negative quantity or a subtraction; minus sign
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negative sign

n (Math) → Minuszeichen nt, → negatives Vorzeichen
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"The vicomte was summoned to surrender by the Arabs, but he made them a negative sign with his head, and continued to march towards the palisades.
At this word APOLOGIES, a cloud passed over the brow of Athos, a haughty smile curled the lip of Porthos, and a negative sign was the reply of Aramis.
She replied by a negative sign of the head, and her pensive glance fixed itself upon the vault of the ceiling.
The young man's finger, glided over the words, but at each one Noirtier answered by a negative sign. Valentine hid her head between her hands.
She made a slight negative sign. He must have been observing her, putting two and two together.
Subsequently, it provided the participants another opportunity to demonstrate formula-to-graph mutual entailment on the three square root functions that included a negative sign inside the radical, a negative sign before the radical, and a negative sign before the radical with a positive constant (2) inside the radical as shown below:
"Playing with your hair too much can be a negative sign of being uptight," says Roslyn Roland of The Image and Etiquette Institute in New Jersey.
These diagnostics include: the model log likelihood, the p-value from a test for residual autocorrelation (Wald AR), (21) the p-value from a traditional Ljung-Box [1978] test for symmetric ARCH at 24 lags, and the p-values from an Engle-Ng [1993] Sign Bias Test, Negative Sign Bias Test, Positive Sign Bias Test and Joint Sign Bias Test--all at 5 lags--for the presence of asymmetric ARCH effects.
Here a precision is imposed, that the poetry of paradoxist de-construction doesn't annul the image (internal, potential) and the proposal of construction (a reconstruction or a construction of a negative sign) is concomitant.
In the article by Wilhelm and Ritz [Environ Health Perspect 111:207-216 (2003)], a negative sign was omitted from the equation on page 208.
Not being a seasoned investor who has had a lot of experience with the ups and downs of the stock market, I found myself gasping at what seemed like a very big negative sign before the one-year rate of return.
The negative sign of birefringence (larger refractive index perpendicular to the texture), fluorescence staining with brefeldin A, and electron microscopy of fixed cells [5] suggest that this negatively birefringent material is a pleated series of endoplasmic reticular membranes, stratified and oriented by the centrifugation.