Plus minus symbol ±
Symbol Meaning
The plus minus sign is used to indicate the interval. From three to seven, you can write as: 5 ± 2. On the keyboard type Alt + 0177. The number 0177 is entered on the numeric block with Num Lock on.
Also, the solidworks plus minus symbol can be used for: indicate the observational error; spread of values of any parameters.
In a conversation between people the plus minus symbol indicates the inaccuracy of anything.
The symbol “Plus minus symbol” is included in the “Latin-1 punctuation and symbols” subblock of the “Latin-1 Supplement” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
Synonyms
+-.
| Unicode Name | Plus minus symbol |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Entity | ± |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Latin-1 Supplement |
| Unicode Subblock | Latin-1 punctuation and symbols |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Alt Code |
Alt 241(English Keyboard Layout)
|
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 00B1 |
| Simple case change | 00B1 |
| Math | + |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | C2 B1 | 194 177 | 49841 | 11000010 10110001 |
| UTF-16BE | 00 B1 | 0 177 | 177 | 00000000 10110001 |
| UTF-16LE | B1 00 | 177 0 | 45312 | 10110001 00000000 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 00 B1 | 0 0 0 177 | 177 | 00000000 00000000 00000000 10110001 |
| UTF-32LE | B1 00 00 00 | 177 0 0 0 | 2969567232 | 10110001 00000000 00000000 00000000 |
Related Characters
Plus minus symbol is part of collections: