vinculum

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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 Oratour saith, and very truly doubtlesse, That, Omnes artes, qu� ad humanitatē pertinent, habent commune quoddam vinculum, & cognatione quadam inter se continentur.

From The Way To Geometry by Bedwell, William

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