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a tiny cross that quietly built every bank balance and broken heart's math.
means A word and symbol meaning 'added to,' used to combine quantities, indicate something extra, or mark a positive value.
from Straight from Latin plus, meaning 'more,' the comparative cousin of multus ('much'). The symbol + likely began as a medieval shorthand scribble of the Latin word et ('and'), squashed over centuries into the neat little cross we recognize, formally adopted in arithmetic by the late 1400s.
- latin root
- comes from Latin meaning simply more
- first printed
- appeared in a 1489 German arithmetic book
- shorthand origin
- likely scribbled from Latin et, meaning and
- blood types
- the plus marks Rh-positive red cells
- brand magnet
- slapped onto products to imply secret upgrades
for instance
plus magazine — university of cambridge mathematics and science magazine, published since 2003
google plus — google's social network launched in 2011, shut down in 2019
plus size modeling — fashion industry category for models typically size 12 and above