vinculum

Example Sentences

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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

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

In the environment of liquids and nasals a parasitic vowel sometimes develops; as,— vinculum for earlier vinclum.

From New Latin Grammar by Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)

Man is the vinculum that connects the Creator with His creation, and light from heaven illumes his birth and infancy.

From Joseph II. and His Court by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)