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POSITIVE SIGN

Definition: POSITIVE SIGN

POSITIVE SIGN

1. (Math.), the sign [+] denoting plus, or more, or addition.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Crosswords: POSITIVE SIGN

English words defined with "POSITIVE SIGN": Mean error ♦ Plus sign. (references)

Specialty definitions using "POSITIVE SIGN": binary coded decimal ♦ ion exchanger ♦ logical shift. (references)

Non-Fiction Usage: POSITIVE SIGN

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Guyana	The admirable speed and resolve that the government brought to resurrecting the GEC privatization in the wake of an abrupt collapse in 1998 was a positive sign, however. (references)
Political Economy	South Africa	However, one positive sign that political violence is likely to continue to wane was the May 1999 signing of a peace pact between the ANC and IFP in KwaZulu-Natal. (references)
	ROMANIA	The recent privatization of Sidex, the largest steel plant, is a positive sign. (references)
Political Rights	East Timor	This was taken to be a positive sign by some of the main women's rights organizations in East Timor. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Modern Translation: POSITIVE SIGN

Language		Translations for "POSITIVE SIGN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		плюс (asset, over and above, plus). (various references)

German		Pluszeichen (plus, plus sign, pluses). (various references)

Hungarian		pozitív előjel, pluszjel (plus, plus sign), összeadási jel. (various references)

Manx		cowrey jarrooagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		ositivepay ignsay

Turkish		artı işareti (cross, plus sign). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: POSITIVE SIGN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-g-i-i-i-n-o-p-s-s-t-v"
	-2 letters: vinosities.
	-3 letters: piosities, poetising, positives, spongiest.
	-4 letters: inosites, noisiest, pigsties, pivoting, positing, positive, postings, signpost, sopiting, spiniest, vestings, visiting.
	-5 letters: egoists, epigoni, epigons, eviting, gipsies, ignites, ingests, inosite, insteps, invests, invites, ionises, isospin, nosiest, peising, pigeons, pingoes, piniest, pinites, pintoes, pissing, pistons, pointes, poising, posting, postins, potsies, seising, sieving, signets, sinopie, sopites, soviets, spigots.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Alternative Orthography: POSITIVE SIGN

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 4F 53 49 54 49 56 45 53 49 47 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01001111 01010011 01001001 01010100 01001001 01010110 01000101 00100000 01010011 01001001 01000111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#79 &#83 &#73 &#84 &#73 &#86 &#69 &#32 &#83 &#73 &#71 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 004F 0053 0049 0054 0049 0056 0045 0053 0049 0047 004E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5049534354435639253434148

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Translations: Modern

5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography

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