+

See also: +/-, ⁺ [U+207A SUPERSCRIPT PLUS SIGN], 𑀓 [U+11013 BRAHMI LETTER KA], and Appendix:Variations of "t"

+ U+002B, + PLUS SIGN ← * [U+002A] Basic Latin , → [U+002C]

Character variations

⁺ U+207A, ⁺ SUPERSCRIPT PLUS SIGN ← ⁹ [U+2079] Superscripts and Subscripts ⁻ → [U+207B]

₊ U+208A, ₊ SUBSCRIPT PLUS SIGN ← ₉ [U+2089] Superscripts and Subscripts ₋ → [U+208B]

Text style	Emoji style
➕︎	➕️
Text style is forced with ⟨︎⟩ and emoji style with ⟨️⟩.
➕ U+2795, ➕ HEAVY PLUS SIGN ← ➔ [U+2794] Dingbats ➖ → [U+2796]

﹢ U+FE62, ﹢ SMALL PLUS SIGN ← ﹡ [U+FE61] Small Form Variants ﹣ → [U+FE63]

＋ U+FF0B, ＋ FULLWIDTH PLUS SIGN ← ＊ [U+FF0A] Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms ， → [U+FF0C]

Translingual

Description

Two lines crossed in the middle: one vertical line and one horizontal line.

Glyph origin

From a ligature of Latin et (“and”). Compare & and ⁊ of same meaning.

Symbol

+ (English symbol name plus sign or plus)

1. (arithmetic, algebra) Addition, additive operation.

   3 + 2 = 5

2. (mathematics) Explicitly indicates that the next number is positive.

   +5 is different from −5

3. (informal) "Or more"; indicates that a number is the minimum quantity or amount.

   This project is going to take 10+ years to complete. (10 or more years)

4. (mathematics) From the positive side.

   $\lim _{x\to a^{+}}f(x)$ is the same as $\lim _{x\downarrow a}\,f(x)$

5. (mathematics) A disjoint union, a coproduct.
6. (mathematics, logic) An inclusive disjunction.
7. (genetics) A wild type.
8. (botany) A grafted hybrid.
9. (programming) A string concatenation in some programming languages (that might be ambiguous with an additive operation).

   "My name is " + name + ". I am " + age + " years old."

10. (regular expressions) Detects one or more occurrences of the preceding element.

    The string ab+c matches "abc", "abbc", "abbbc", and so on, but not "ac".

11. (chess notation) Check.
12. A placeholder standing for the international call prefix in phone numbers.

    Sure, call me if you want. My number is +496919725.

13. (medicine) An affirmative result from a laboratory test.
14. (electricity) An anode.
15. Indicating north.
16. (music) Augmented.

Usage notes

• The + symbol is called the plus sign in English (see there for translations).

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:+.

Synonyms

• ﬩
• (symbol for and): &, ⁊

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “addition or positiveness”): - or −, sometimes ÷

Derived terms

• A+, B+, O+, AB+, Rh+
• A+, B+, C+, D+
• +ve
• +1

See also

• plus sign
• (chess): ++
• ⧺
• ⧻
• 十

Conjunction

+

1. (computing) When placed between key names, indicates that they should be pressed simultaneously.

   Press Ctrl+C to copy!

2. (siglum, informal) and

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:+.

Adverb

+

1. (text messaging, slang) more

English

Conjunction

+

1. Abbreviation of and.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

   1. (stenoscript) Abbreviation of and.
2. (slang) Used to connect two elements: and, plus.
   • 2024 September 16, Mehera Bonner, “Wondering What Dan Levy Is Making for Hosting the 2024 Emmys? Here's a Deep Dive on His Net Worth!”, in Cosmopolitan‎^[2]:

     Despite winning every award under the sun and being critically acclaimed + beloved, Schitt's Creek didn't become household-name-levels of popular until its last few seasons.

Usage notes

• In stenoscript, this is only used for the conjunction 'and'. The sound sequence /Vnd/ is written —.

Chinese

Conjunction

+

1. (neologism, Covid-19) denotes the immigration policy where the preceding number is the number of days required for quarantine and the following number is the number of days for medical monitoring

   7+3

   (the policy of) 7 days of quarantine followed by 3 days of medical monitoring