vinculum

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

Connection -- N. vinculum, link; connective, connection; junction &c.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget

Through this mystical zennaar, or vinculum, the sanctified person is passed with endless ceremonials.

From Cultus Arborum Phallic Tree Worship by Anonymous

His body was buried first at All Hallows, Barking, and then removed to St. Peter’s ad vincula in the Tower, where it lies beside that of Sir Thomas More.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various

Note the phrases et is, et ea, etc., in the sense: and that too; as,— vincula, et ea sempiterna, imprisonment, and that too permanently.

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

And the King Henry came home to England before harvest, after the mass of St. Peter "ad vincula".

From The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle by J. H. (James Henry) Ingram

The regular Latin phrase for imprisonment is "in vincula conicere": Pauly-Wissowa, s.v. "carcer."

From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by W. Warde Fowler

The transverse vincula are often at right angles to the principal branches, and the meshes, where formed, are often long and rectangular.

From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride