Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Minus \Mi"nus\ (m[imac]"n[u^]s), a. [L. See {Minor}, and cf.
{Mis-} pref. from the French.] (Math.)
Less; requiring to be subtracted; negative; as, a minus
quantity.
[1913 Webster]
{Minus sign} (Math.), the sign [-] denoting minus, or less,
prefixed to negative quantities, or quantities to be
subtracted. See {Negative sign}, under {Negative}.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
minus sign
n 1: a sign indicating the operation of subtraction