Definitions For Signum

Noun

SIGNUM (plural signa or s) A sign, mark, or symbol. (history) A medieval tower bell used particularly for ringing the eight canonical hours.:s:encyclopædia britannica, ninth edition, encyclopædia britannica, 9th ed., ":s:encyclopædia britannica, ninth edition/bell, bell".Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Music, Vol. 2, . : Synonym: signum bell (math) A function that extracts the sign of a real number x, yielding -1 if x is negative, +1 if x is positive, or 0 if x is zero. : Synonym: signum function, sign function

Related terms

signum manus

Etymology

{{root, en, ine-pro, *sek-}} {{root, en, ine-pro, *sekʷ-, id=follow}} {{lbor, en, la, signum}}. {{dbt, en, sign}}.

Anagrams

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