vinculum
Example Sentences
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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
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
Qua respondente, quod nequiret pro vinculis, jam malo tuo, inquit, solveris; et protinus cathenam quæ cæterorum ferociam dæmonum deluserat, velut stuppeum vinculum rumpebat.
From Poems, 1799 by Southey, Robert
The following are his words: “Sic non obscurus est ejusmodi motus in quâcumque corporis parte, si vinculum adhibeatur, aut aliâ ratione occludantur venæ: cùm enim tollitur permeatio, intumescunt rivuli quâ parte fluere solent.”
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
