vinculum

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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

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

Vincti erant preterea pedes auro, manus etiam catenis aureis; nec collo aureum vinculum deerat, quod scurra Persicus præferebat.

From Zenobia or, the Fall of Palmyra by Ware, William