Usage of "equal sign"

Russian

равенство

Portuguese

sinal de igualdade

Spanish

signo igual

Catalan

signe igual

Mathematical symbol used to indicate equality.

is equal to

not-equals-to sign

Related terms

comparison sign

равенство

Usage of equal sign in English

To make a hyphen, tick the key between the zero and the equal sign. 
 The new yorker 

The problem is that students often fail to understand the sacredness of the equal sign. 
 Wired 

Respect the equal sign, and it will respect you. 
 Wired 

Think of colonsas the equal sign of punctuation. 
 Wired 

The equal sign means the thing on the left and the thing on the right are equivalent. 
 Wired 

What does the equal sign mean? 
 Wired 

And, sure enough, up ahead were two bits of tape together, like an equal sign, on the right-hand wall. 
 The Mammoth Book of Steampunk 

If you move it to the other side and make it negative you have not respected the equal sign. 
 Wired 

The spaces around the equal sign, the quotation marks, and the uppercase letters on the keyword are all required. 
 Essential system administration, 3rd edition 

The equal sign meaning that they supported marriage equality, and he was wondering if you knew about that Facebook campaign. 
 The new yorker 

It says that some quantity or expression on one side of the equal sign is equivalent to the other side. 
 Wired 

On Facebook everybody changed their profile picture from a picture of themselves to a picture of, it was the equal sign. 
 The new yorker 

Well, if you respect the equal sign, then whatever you do to the left side equation, you will do unto the right side. 
 Wired 

I'm the equals sign, Amberson, but you have to decide. 
 11/22/63 

If an option demands an argument, it is usually separated by spaces in the short form, but by equals signs in the long form. 
 Nagios: system and network monitoring, 2nd edition 