vinculum

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

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

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 Maine, Henry Sumner, Sir

It appears least in contradiction with the other principles of the philosopher to assign the rôle of this vinculum substantiate to the soul or central monad itself.

From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Falckenberg, Richard