Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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Plus (Page: 103)

Plus (?), a. [L., more; akin to Gr. , , and E. full. See Full, a., and cf. Pi\'97, Pleonasm.]

1. (Math.) More, required to be added; positive, as distinguished from negative; -- opposed to minus.

2. Hence, in a literary sense, additional; real; actual.

Success goes invariably with a certain plus or positive power. Emerson.

Plus sign (Math.), the sign (+) which denotes addition, or a positive quantity.