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

Then I hope you will allow it to be not incongruous this evening, Homer being the original vinculum between you and me.

From Gryll Grange by Peacock, Thomas Love

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.