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

Third, by the repetition of the note with a vinculum or tie, the second note not being sung or played.

From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 by Various

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)