Vinculum Definition

vĭngkyə-ləm
vincula, vinculums
noun
A line drawn over two or more terms of a compound quantity to show that they are to be treated together (Ex.: a − x + y)
Webster's New World
A band or connecting fold.
Webster's New World
That which binds; bond; tie.
Webster's New World
A bandlike structure, such as a ligament.
American Heritage Medicine

(arithmetic) A horizontal line over the top of some of the terms in an expression, indicating that that part of the calculation is to be done before other parts.

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Noun

Singular:
vinculum
Plural:
vincula, vinculums

Origin of Vinculum

  • From Latin vinculum (“bond, link"), from vinciō (“bind, fetter, tie") + -ulum.

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin bond, tie from vincīre to tie

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Vinculum Sentence Examples

  • Deep plantar tendons connected by a vinculum.

  • He denotes quantities by the letters of the alphabet, retaining the vowels for the unknown and the consonants for the knowns; he introduced the vinculum and among others the terms coefficient, affirmative, negative, pure and adfected equations.

  • Tendon of the flexor hallucis longus muscle sending a strong vinculum to that of the flexor profundus muscle, the tendon of which goes to the third toe only.

  • A perfect obligation is one which is directly enforceable by legal proceedings; an imperfect or moral obligation (the naturalis obligatio of Roman law) is one in which the vinculum juris is in some respects incomplete, so that it cannot be directly enforced, though it is not entirely destitute of legal effect.

  • He suggested that this theory of the substantial unity of a body might explain transubstantiation, by supposing that, while the monads and phenomena of bread remain, the vinculum substantiale of the body of Christ is substituted.

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Words Starting With

VVIVIN

Words Ending With

MUMLUM

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Words Starting With V and Ending With M

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8 Letter Words8 Letter Words Starting With V8 Letter Words Ending With M