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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Plus \Plus\, adjective [L., more; akin to Gr. ?, ?, and E. full. See {Full}, adjective, and cf. {Pi['u]}, {Pleonasm}.]
1. (Math.) More, required to be added; positive, as distinguished from negative; -- opposed to {minus}.
2. Hence, in a literary sense, additional; real; actual.
Success goes invariably with a certain plus or positive power. --Emerson.
{Plus sign} (Math.), the sign (+) which denotes addition, or a positive quantity.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
plus
adjective
1: on the positive side or higher end of a scale; "a plus value"; "temperature of plus 5 degrees"; "a grade of C plus" [ant: {minus}]
2: involving advantage or good; "a plus (or positive) factor" [syn: {positive}]
noun
1: a useful or valuable quality [syn: {asset}] [ant: {liability}]
2: the arithmetic operation of summing; calculating the sum of two or more numbers; "the summation of four and three gives seven"; "four plus three equals seven" [syn: {summation}, {addition}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
146 Moby Thesaurus words for "plus": above, accessory, add, added, added to, addend, addition, additional, additionally, adjoin, advantage, affix, again, agglutinate, aggrandize, all included, along with, also, altogether, among other things, ancillary, and, and all, and also, and so, annex, another, append, as well, as well as, asset, attach, attended by, au reste, augment, auxiliary, balance, beef up, benefit, beside, besides, beyond, bonus, boost, build, burden, collateral, complicate, compound, conjoin, contributory, coupled with, decorate, dividend, else, en plus, encumber, enlarge, expand, extra, farther, for lagniappe, fresh, further, furthermore, gain, glue on, gratuity, hitch on, in addition, in addition to, in conjunction with, including, inclusive of, infix, inter alia, into the bargain, item, join with, lagniappe, leftover, let alone, likewise, linked to, magnify, margin, minus, more, moreover, negative, new, not to mention, on the side, on top of, ornament, other, over, over and above, overage, overmeasure, overplus, overrun, overset, overstock, oversupply, paste on, plus sign, positive, postfix, pourboire, prefix, profit, put with, remainder, return, saddle with, similarly, slap on, something extra, spare, subjoin, subtotal, suffix, sum, summation, superadd, supernumerary, superpose, supplemental, supplementary, surplus, surplusage, tack on, tag, tag on, then, therewith, tip, to boot, together with, too, total, ulterior, unite with, with, yet
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
PLUS Late 60's. Machine-oriented systems language used internally by Univac.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
plus + Common: {ITU-T}: plus; add. Rare: cross; {INTERCAL}: intersection.
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