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- How do I say “±” in English? - English Language Learners Stack . . .
Although it is rather common to verbalise ± 1 as “ positive or negative 1”, this is not technically correct, and “ plus (or) minus 1” is the logical and arguably correct verbalisation As prefixes, - and ± are unary (as opposed to binary) arithmetic operators: -(-1) (“minus minus 1”) just means to flip the sign of 1 twice
- interpretation - Whats the meaning of within x of something . . .
Or informally ± (plus or minus) The point x is within the circle C In this situation I would assume you mean strictly less than I e if the point lies exactly on the border of the circle, it is no longer considered to be 'within' the circle: Let d_x be the distance from the center of circle C to point x Let r be the radius of C d_x < r
- Use of the plural form when listing two objects in succession in . . .
The edit would appear as so: The mean mesiodistal positioning errors for the posteriors were 0 09±0 09 mm and 0 05±0 01 mm for the control and experimental groups, respectively
- Can I use the then to refer to a previous name of something?
I partially agree with James K that the sentence is a little hard to understand at first reading, but I wouldn't go as far as he does Referring to an old name of something by saying "then [old name]" or "the then [old name]" is reasonably common In my humble opinion it's an awkward phrase and I rarely use it, but there are enough fluent speakers out there who do that I don't think you could
- Why does the then chairman contain the then at the same time?
Consider the similar example I wanted to live in the city, but my then husband (= the man who was my husband at that time) preferred the country Then (before a noun) is an adjective and means at that time
- What is the name for these keys on a computer keyboard?
Here is a (US English layout) computer keyboard There are six keys which are dotted red in the upper right corner I want to know what to call them in English I want to know the names for each
- prepositions - What does for mean in this sentence? - English . . .
The combination '±' takes care of cases, explained in the previous discussion, where the item satisfies the criterion only under certain conditions The six criteria to be applied to each item are :
- What does whatcha mean? - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
In casual conversations, does whatcha mean any one of the following three options depending on contexts? = what are you Whatcha gonna do? = what have you Whatcha got? = What do you Whatcha wa
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