vinculum

You might expect 10 ÷ 5 is the same as 10/5 is the same as 10 over a 5 with a vinculum between them, but each has its own eccentricities.

From Slate ● Mar. 12, 2013

But it gets really tricky when people assume that a slash replaces a vinculum.

From Slate ● Mar. 12, 2013

A vinculum usually has little to do with division; it’s used in fractions and to group together numbers just as parentheses are.

From Slate ● Mar. 12, 2013

The notion of the vinculum juris, so far as my knowledge extends, is exclusively Roman.

From Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society by Sir Henry Sumner Maine

Third, by the repetition of the note with a vinculum or tie, the second note not being sung or played.

From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 by Various

The regular Latin phrase for imprisonment is "in vincula conicere": Pauly-Wissowa, s.v. "carcer."

From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by W. Warde Fowler

The transverse vincula are often at right angles to the principal branches, and the meshes, where formed, are often long and rectangular.

From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride

Note the phrases et is, et ea, etc., in the sense: and that too; as,— vincula, et ea sempiterna, imprisonment, and that too permanently.

From New Latin Grammar by Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett

And the King Henry came home to England before harvest, after the mass of St. Peter "ad vincula".

From The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle by J. H. (James Henry) Ingram

His body was buried first at All Hallows, Barking, and then removed to St. Peter’s ad vincula in the Tower, where it lies beside that of Sir Thomas More.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various