Much Less-than
Part of Math Symbols
Much Less-than has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- ≪
- Unicode
- U+226A
About this symbol
≪ means “much less than”, so a ≪ b says a is so much smaller than b that it can often be ignored. Physicists and engineers use it to justify simplifying formulas.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- MUCH LESS-THAN
- Type
- Maths symbol
- Unicode block
- Mathematical Operators
- Unicode group
- Relations
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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