radicalsign

radicalsign
radical sign n. Mathematics
1. The sign √placed before a quantity, indicating extraction of the root designated by a raised integer. When extracting a square root, the raised integer is customarily omitted.
2. The radical sign together with a horizontal bar extending from its top to the end of the expression from which a root is to be extracted.

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Universalium. 2010.

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