Definition of Plusses

1. Noun. (plural of plus) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Plusses

1. plus [n] - See also: plus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Plusses

plushiest
plushily
plushiness
plushinesses
plushly
plushness
plushnesses
plushy
plusing
plusquam-
plusquamperfect
plussage
plussages
plussed
plusses (current term)
plussing
plutarchy
plute
pluteal
plutei
pluterperfect
plutes
pluteus
pluteuses
plutino
plutinos
pluto
plutocracies
plutocracy

Literary usage of Plusses

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Revised Record of the Constitutional Convention of the State of New York by William H. Steele, Charles Elliott Fitch (1900)
"Gentlemen come here, as did the last speaker, and take certain counties which are Democratic and show plusses, large plusses which are unavoidable. ..."

2. Leveling and Earthwork by Joseph Baker Davis (1906)
"Treat these cases the same as the cross sections at any other plusses. 30. The plusses should all be measured, both the old and the new, ..."

3. Railroad Location, Surveys and Estimates by Fred Lavis (1906)
"At the sites of all bridges or viaducts, extra care by measuring in the plusses and getting the smaller inequalities should be taken, so that the profile at ..."

4. Railroad, Location, Surveys and Estimates by Fred Lavis (1906)
"At the sites of all bridges or viaducts, extra care by measuring in the plusses and getting the smaller inequalities should be taken, so that the profile at ..."

5. Handbook of Cost Data for Contractors and Engineers: A Reference Book Giving by Halbert Powers Gillette (1910)
"Right of way fences were carefully located by stations and plusses on line and by distance out at all points where any change in direction or distance out ..."

6. The Field Practice of Railway Location by Willard Beahan (1909)
"He must previously check his subtraction made in the field for elevation of stations and plusses, the rodman calling off the notes. ..."

7. Text Book on Railroad Surveying by George Wellington Pickels, Carroll Carson Wiley (1913)
"... highways, streams, and property lines, and recording the plusses at which they cross the line; and to keep the notes of the transit party. ..."

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