vinculums
/ˈvɪŋkjələmz/
noun
- A bond or connection between people or things.
- The treaty served as a vinculum linking the neighboring countries.
- The shared history created a strong vinculum between the two communities.
- Their friendship was a vinculum that held the group together through difficult times.
- In mathematics, a horizontal line placed over a group of terms to show that they are to be treated as a unit, as in a fraction or under a radical sign.
- The fraction 3/4 can be written with a vinculum separating the numerator and denominator.
- When simplifying the radical, remember that the vinculum groups the terms underneath it.
- In the expression √(x + y), the vinculum covers both x and y.
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