Meanings of minus quantity in inglés

I measured my chances, and found them at present a minus quantity.

No wonder my love for the Sans is a minus quantity.

Her gay animation that morning was wholly a minus quantity.

She had always liked Mrs. Damer, but her taste for dinner-parties was a minus quantity.

Thus, we find it not unnatural that a man should be led to ask; What is a minus quantity really?

It was ingratiatingly spoken-thesoft answer that should have turned away wrath; but Noel's tolerance was a minus quantity that night.

But, take it all in all, my schooldays are, as they say in mathematics, "a minus quantity" to me.

The drone is a minus quantity in the problem of life; instead of adding to the common weal, he is ever subtracting from it.

Callers were not altogether a minus quantity, not everybody shunned her; but her chief associates were the families at the schoolhouse and the parsonage.

A psychologist would say that your group identification is low and your cyclothymia practically a minus quantity, while your ergic tension is pleasingly high.

Matériel was a minus quantity for a long time, wooden imitations sufficing for guns until several 3.2's were procured for the regiment.

Men like me escape being minus quantities in society only when they are men of science or great artists,-notartists without portfolios.

"Looks as if the fancy dress is a minus quantity," observed Billy to his companion with a grin.

"I'm beginning to think"-Mordauntspoke with force-"thatyour sense of honour is as much a minus quantity as your wealth."