vinculum
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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
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
The great trouble with Mr. Darwin's vinculum is, that its weakest links are precisely where the strongest should be found, and vice versa.
From Life: Its True Genesis by Wright, R. W.
It is defined by the Roman lawyers as "Juris vinculum, quo necessitate adstringimur alicujus solvendæ rei."
From Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society by Maine, Henry Sumner, Sir
