Table of Contents
186 relations: A List Apart, Adjective phrase, Albert Einstein, Alt code, AltGr key, AMA Manual of Style, American Medical Association, Ancient Greek, Ancient Rome, Android (operating system), AP Stylebook, APA style, Aposiopesis, Arithmetic, ASCII, Autocorrection, Baseline (typography), Bence Jones protein, Benjamin Franklin, Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, Bitwise operation, Blood–brain barrier, Bose–Einstein statistics, Box-drawing characters, Bullet (typography), Cambria (typeface), Cambridge University Press, Cap height, Catch-22, Character encoding, Chattanooga Times Free Press, Chōonpu, Cheyne–Stokes respiration, Chinese characters, CJK characters, Colon (punctuation), Comma, Compose key, Compound (linguistics), Compound modifier, Copula (linguistics), Corpus linguistics, Data anonymization, Diaeresis (diacritic), Dialogue, Dictionary, Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, Dorland's medical reference works, Early Modern English, East Asian languages, ... Expand index (136 more) »
A List Apart
A List Apart is a webzine that explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on web standards and best practices.
Adjective phrase
An adjective phrase (or adjectival phrase) is a phrase whose head is an adjective.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who is widely held as one of the most influential scientists. Best known for developing the theory of relativity, Einstein also made important contributions to quantum mechanics. His mass–energy equivalence formula, which arises from relativity theory, has been called "the world's most famous equation".
Alt code
On personal computers with numeric keypads that use Microsoft operating systems, such as Windows, many characters that do not have a dedicated key combination on the keyboard may nevertheless be entered using the Alt code (the Alt numpad input method).
AltGr key
AltGr (also Alt Graph) is a modifier key found on many computer keyboards (rather than a second Alt key found on US keyboards).
AMA Manual of Style
AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors is the style guide of the American Medical Association.
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American Medical Association
The American Medical Association (AMA) is an American professional association and lobbying group of physicians and medical students.
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Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.
Ancient Rome
In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.
Android (operating system)
Android is a mobile operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open-source software, designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.
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AP Stylebook
The Associated Press Stylebook (generally called the AP Stylebook), alternatively titled The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law, is a style and usage guide for American English grammar created by American journalists working for or connected with the Associated Press journalism cooperative based in New York City.
APA style
APA style (also known as APA format) is a writing style and format for academic documents such as scholarly journal articles and books.
Aposiopesis
Aposiopesis (Classical Greek: ἀποσιώπησις, "becoming silent") is a figure of speech wherein a sentence is deliberately broken off and left unfinished, the ending to be supplied by the imagination, giving an impression of unwillingness or inability to continue.
Arithmetic
Arithmetic is an elementary branch of mathematics that studies numerical operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
ASCII
ASCII, an acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for electronic communication.
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Autocorrection
Autocorrection, also known as text replacement, replace-as-you-type, text expander or simply autocorrect, is an automatic data validation function commonly found in word processors and text editing interfaces for smartphones and tablet computers.
Baseline (typography)
In European and West Asian typography and penmanship, the baseline is the line upon which most letters sit and below which descenders extend. Dash and baseline (typography) are typography.
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Bence Jones protein
Bence Jones protein is a monoclonal globulin protein or immunoglobulin light chain found in the urine, with a molecular weight of 22–24 kDa.
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Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin (April 17, 1790) was an American polymath: a leading writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher and political philosopher.
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Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act
The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, commonly known as the McCain–Feingold Act or BCRA, is a United States federal law that amended the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, which regulates the financing of political campaigns.
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Bitwise operation
In computer programming, a bitwise operation operates on a bit string, a bit array or a binary numeral (considered as a bit string) at the level of its individual bits.
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Blood–brain barrier
The blood–brain barrier (BBB) is a highly selective semipermeable border of endothelial cells that regulates the transfer of solutes and chemicals between the circulatory system and the central nervous system, thus protecting the brain from harmful or unwanted substances in the blood.
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Bose–Einstein statistics
In quantum statistics, Bose–Einstein statistics (B–E statistics) describes one of two possible ways in which a collection of non-interacting identical particles may occupy a set of available discrete energy states at thermodynamic equilibrium.
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Box-drawing characters
Box-drawing characters, also known as line-drawing characters, are a form of semigraphics widely used in text user interfaces to draw various geometric frames and boxes.
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Bullet (typography)
In typography, a bullet or bullet point,, is a typographical symbol or glyph used to introduce items in a list. Dash and bullet (typography) are punctuation.
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Cambria (typeface)
Cambria is a transitional serif typeface commissioned by Microsoft and distributed with Windows and Office.
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Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.
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Cap height
In typography, cap height is the height of a capital letter above the baseline for a particular typeface. Dash and cap height are typography.
Catch-22
Catch-22 is a satirical war novel by American author Joseph Heller.
Character encoding
Character encoding is the process of assigning numbers to graphical characters, especially the written characters of human language, allowing them to be stored, transmitted, and transformed using digital computers.
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Chattanooga Times Free Press
The Chattanooga Times Free Press is a daily broadsheet newspaper published in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and is distributed in the metropolitan Chattanooga region of southeastern Tennessee and northwestern Georgia.
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Chōonpu
The, also known as,,, or Katakana-Hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark by the Unicode Consortium, is a Japanese symbol that indicates a, or a long vowel of two morae in length.
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Cheyne–Stokes respiration
Cheyne–Stokes respiration is an abnormal pattern of breathing characterized by progressively deeper, and sometimes faster, breathing followed by a gradual decrease that results in a temporary stop in breathing called an apnea.
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Chinese characters
Chinese characters are logographs used to write the Chinese languages and others from regions historically influenced by Chinese culture.
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CJK characters
In internationalization, CJK characters is a collective term for graphemes used in the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems, which each include Chinese characters.
Colon (punctuation)
The colon,, is a punctuation mark consisting of two equally sized dots aligned vertically. Dash and colon (punctuation) are punctuation.
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Comma
The comma is a punctuation mark that appears in several variants in different languages. Dash and comma are punctuation.
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Compose key
A compose key (sometimes called multi key) is a key on a computer keyboard that indicates that the following (usually 2 or more) keystrokes trigger the insertion of an alternate character, typically a precomposed character or a symbol.
Compound (linguistics)
In linguistics, a compound is a lexeme (less precisely, a word or sign) that consists of more than one stem.
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Compound modifier
A compound modifier (also called a compound adjective, phrasal adjective, or adjectival phrase) is a compound of two or more attributive words: that is, two or more words that collectively modify a noun.
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Copula (linguistics)
In linguistics, a copula /‘kɑpjələ/ (copulas or copulae; abbreviated) is a word or phrase that links the subject of a sentence to a subject complement, such as the word is in the sentence "The sky is blue" or the phrase was not being in the sentence "It was not being cooperative." The word copula derives from the Latin noun for a "link" or "tie" that connects two different things.
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Corpus linguistics
Corpus linguistics is an empirical method for the study of language by way of a text corpus (plural corpora).
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Data anonymization
Data anonymization is a type of information sanitization whose intent is privacy protection.
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Diaeresis (diacritic)
Diaeresis is a name for the two dots diacritical mark because of rendering limitation in Android (as of v13), that its default sans font fails to render "dotted circle + diacritic", so visitors just get a meaningless (to most) mark.
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Dialogue
Dialogue (sometimes spelled dialog in American English) is a written or spoken conversational exchange between two or more people, and a literary and theatrical form that depicts such an exchange.
Dictionary
A dictionary is a listing of lexemes from the lexicon of one or more specific languages, often arranged alphabetically (or by consonantal root for Semitic languages or radical and stroke for logographic languages), which may include information on definitions, usage, etymologies, pronunciations, translation, etc.
Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
The Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, commonly referred to as Dodd–Frank, is a United States federal law that was enacted on July 21, 2010.
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Dorland's medical reference works
Dorland's is the brand name of a family of medical reference works (including dictionaries, spellers and word books, and spell-check software) in various media spanning printed books, CD-ROMs, and online content.
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Early Modern English
Early Modern English (sometimes abbreviated EModEFor example, or EMnE) or Early New English (ENE) is the stage of the English language from the beginning of the Tudor period to the English Interregnum and Restoration, or from the transition from Middle English, in the late 15th century, to the transition to Modern English, in the mid-to-late 17th century.
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East Asian languages
The East Asian languages are a language family (alternatively macrofamily or superphylum) proposed by Stanley Starosta in 2001.
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Ellipsis
The ellipsis, rendered, alternatively described as suspension points/dots, or points/periods of ellipsis, or colloquially, dot-dot-dot,. Dash and ellipsis are punctuation.
Em (typography)
An em (from em quadrat) is a unit in the field of typography, equal to the currently specified point size. Dash and em (typography) are typography.
En (typography)
An en (from English en quadrat) is a typographic unit, half of the width of an em. Dash and en (typography) are typography.
English compound
A compound is a word composed of more than one free morpheme.
Eponym
An eponym is a person, a place, or a thing after whom or for which someone or something is, or is believed to be, named.
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Fillet (redaction)
To fillet in the sense of literary editing is a form of censorship or redaction effected by "cutting out" central letters of a word or name, as if the skeleton of a fish, and replacing them with dashes, to prevent full disclosure (e.g. for "William Pitt").
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First-person narrative
A first-person narrative (also known as a first-person perspective, voice, point of view, etc.) is a mode of storytelling in which a storyteller recounts events from that storyteller's own personal point of view, using first-person grammar such as "I", "me", "my", and "myself" (also, in plural form, "we", "us", etc.).
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Flatness (manufacturing)
In manufacturing and mechanical engineering, flatness is an important geometric condition for workpieces and tools.
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Font
In metal typesetting, a font is a particular size, weight and style of a typeface. Dash and font are typography.
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French language
French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.
Full stop
The full stop (Commonwealth English), period (North American English), or full point is a punctuation mark used for several purposes, most often to mark the end of a declarative sentence (as distinguished from a question or exclamation). Dash and full stop are punctuation.
Glyph
A glyph is any kind of purposeful mark. Dash and glyph are typography.
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Grove Atlantic
Grove Atlantic, Inc. is an American independent publisher, based in New York City.
Halfwidth and fullwidth forms
In CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) computing, graphic characters are traditionally classed into fullwidth and halfwidth characters.
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Hangul
The Korean alphabet, known as Hangul or Hangeul in South Korea and Chosŏn'gŭl in North Korea, is the modern writing system for the Korean language.
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Hart's Rules
Hart's Rules for Compositors and Readers at the University Press, Oxford (now published as New Hart's Rules) is a reference book and style guide published in England by Oxford University Press (OUP).
Henry Holt and Company
Henry Holt and Company is an American book-publishing company based in New York City.
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Henry VI, Part 2
Henry VI, Part 2 (often written as 2 Henry VI) is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1591 and set during the lifetime of King Henry VI of England.
Horizontal bar
The horizontal bar, also known as the high bar, is an apparatus used by male gymnasts in artistic gymnastics.
HTML
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser.
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Hyphen
The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. Dash and hyphen are punctuation.
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Hyphen-minus
The hyphen-minus symbol is the form of hyphen most commonly used in digital documents. Dash and hyphen-minus are punctuation.
Idem
idem is a Latin term meaning "the same".
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Identifier
An identifier is a name that identifies (that is, labels the identity of) either a unique object or a unique class of objects, where the "object" or class may be an idea, physical countable object (or class thereof), or physical noncountable substance (or class thereof).
International System of Units
The International System of Units, internationally known by the abbreviation SI (from French Système international d'unités), is the modern form of the metric system and the world's most widely used system of measurement.
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IOS
iOS (formerly iPhone OS) is a mobile operating system developed by Apple exclusively for its smartphones.
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James Joyce
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet and literary critic.
John Hughlings Jackson
John Hughlings Jackson, FRS (4 April 1835 – 7 October 1911) was an English neurologist.
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John Lennard-Jones
Sir John Edward Lennard-Jones (27 October 1894 – 1 November 1954) was a British mathematician and professor of theoretical physics at the University of Bristol, and then of theoretical science at the University of Cambridge.
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Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, author, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet, and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift".
Joseph Heller
Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923 – December 12, 1999) was an American author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays.
Kaplan–Meier estimator
The Kaplan–Meier estimator, also known as the product limit estimator, is a non-parametric statistic used to estimate the survival function from lifetime data.
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Katakana
is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji).
King Lear
King Lear is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare.
Korean language
Korean (South Korean: 한국어, Hangugeo; North Korean: 조선말, Chosŏnmal) is the native language for about 81 million people, mostly of Korean descent.
LaTeX
LaTeX (or, often stylized with vertically offset letters) is a software system for typesetting documents.
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Leiden Conventions
The Leiden Conventions or Leiden system is an established set of rules, symbols, and brackets used to indicate the condition of an epigraphic or papyrological text in a modern edition.
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Lennard-Jones potential
In computational chemistry, molecular physics, and physical chemistry, the Lennard-Jones potential (also termed the LJ potential or 12-6 potential; named for John Lennard-Jones) is an intermolecular pair potential.
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Letterer
A letterer is a member of a team of comic book creators responsible for drawing the comic book's text.
Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician, photographer and Anglican priest.
Line wrap and word wrap
Line breaking, also known as word wrapping, is breaking a section of text into lines so that it will fit into the available width of a page, window or other display area. Dash and line wrap and word wrap are typography.
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Linux
Linux is both an open-source Unix-like kernel and a generic name for a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds.
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Linux Libertine
Linux Libertine is a digital typeface created by the Libertine Open Fonts Project, which aims to create free and open alternatives to proprietary typefaces such as Times New Roman.
List of CJK fonts
This is a list of notable CJK fonts (computer fonts with a large range of Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters).
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List of XML and HTML character entity references
In SGML, HTML and XML documents, the logical constructs known as character data and attribute values consist of sequences of characters, in which each character can manifest directly (representing itself), or can be represented by a series of characters called a character reference, of which there are two types: a numeric character reference and a character entity reference.
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Love–hate relationship
A love–hate relationship is an interpersonal relationship involving simultaneous or alternating emotions of love and hate—something particularly common when emotions are intense.
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Mac OS Roman
Mac OS Roman is a character encoding created by Apple Computer, Inc. for use by Macintosh computers.
MacOS
macOS, originally Mac OS X, previously shortened as OS X, is an operating system developed and marketed by Apple since 2001.
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Macron (diacritic)
A macron is a diacritical mark: it is a straight bar placed above a letter, usually a vowel.
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Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (ISO: Mōhanadāsa Karamacaṁda Gāṁdhī; 2 October 186930 January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule.
Markup language
A markup language is a text-encoding system which specifies the structure and formatting of a document and potentially the relationship between its parts.
Mathematics
Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes abstract objects, methods, theories and theorems that are developed and proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself.
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a product line of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft.
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Microsoft Word
Microsoft Word is a word processor developed by Microsoft.
Miscellaneous Technical
Miscellaneous Technical is a Unicode block ranging from U+2300 to U+23FF, which contains various common symbols which are related to and used in the various technical, programming language, and academic professions.
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Monologue
In theatre, a monologue (from μονόλογος, from μόνος mónos, "alone, solitary" and λόγος lógos, "speech") is a speech presented by a single character, most often to express their thoughts aloud, though sometimes also to directly address another character or the audience.
MS-DOS
MS-DOS (acronym for Microsoft Disk Operating System, also known as Microsoft DOS) is an operating system for x86-based personal computers mostly developed by Microsoft.
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Negative number
In mathematics, a negative number represents an opposite.
New York–style pizza
New York–style pizza is a pizza made with a characteristically large hand-tossed thin crust, often sold in wide slices to go.
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Nicholas Okes
Nicholas Okes (died 1645) was an English printer in London of the Jacobean and Caroline eras, remembered for printing works of English Renaissance drama.
Nicholson Baker
Nicholson Baker (born January 7, 1957) is an American novelist and essayist.
Numeric keypad
A numeric keypad, number pad, numpad, or ten key, is the palm-sized, usually-17-key section of a standard computer keyboard, usually on the far right.
Operating system
An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common services for computer programs.
Operation (mathematics)
In mathematics, an operation is a function which takes zero or more input values (also called "operands" or "arguments") to a well-defined output value.
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Operators in C and C++
This is a list of operators in the C and C++ programming languages.
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Opinion piece
An opinion piece is an article, usually published in a newspaper or magazine, that mainly reflects the author's opinion about a subject.
Othello
Othello (full title: The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice) is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare, around 1603.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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Parenthesis (rhetoric)
In rhetoric, a parenthesis (parentheses; from the Ancient Greek word παρένθεσις parénthesis 'injection, insertion', literally '(a) putting in beside') or parenthetical phrase is an explanatory or qualifying word, phrase, clause, or sentence inserted into a passage. Dash and parenthesis (rhetoric) are punctuation.
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Penguin Group
Penguin Group is a British trade book publisher and part of Penguin Random House, which is owned by the German media conglomerate Bertelsmann.
Phonetic symbols in Unicode
Unicode supports several phonetic scripts and notations through its existing scripts and the addition of extra blocks with phonetic characters.
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Plan 9 from Bell Labs
Plan 9 from Bell Labs is a distributed operating system which originated from the Computing Science Research Center (CSRC) at Bell Labs in the mid-1980s and built on UNIX concepts first developed there in the late 1960s.
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Play (theatre)
A play is a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between characters and is intended for theatrical performance rather than mere reading.
Plus and minus signs
The plus sign and the minus sign are mathematical symbols used to denote positive and negative functions, respectively.
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Point (typography)
In typography, the point is the smallest unit of measure. Dash and point (typography) are typography.
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Polish language
Polish (język polski,, polszczyzna or simply polski) is a West Slavic language of the Lechitic group within the Indo-European language family written in the Latin script.
Post-war
A post-war or postwar period is the interval immediately following the end of a war.
Prefix
A prefix is an affix which is placed before the stem of a word.
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Programming language
A programming language is a system of notation for writing computer programs.
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Proto-Indo-European language
Proto-Indo-European (PIE) is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Indo-European language family.
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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.
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Punctuation
Punctuation marks are marks indicating how a piece of written text should be read (silently or aloud) and, consequently, understood. Dash and Punctuation are typography.
Quotation
A quotation is the repetition of a sentence, phrase, or passage from speech or text that someone has said or written.
Quotation mark
Quotation marks are punctuation marks used in pairs in various writing systems to identify direct speech, a quotation, or a phrase. Dash and quotation mark are punctuation.
Redaction
Redaction or sanitization is the process of removing sensitive information from a document so that it may be distributed to a broader audience.
Relative articulation
In phonetics and phonology, relative articulation is description of the manner and place of articulation of a speech sound relative to some reference point.
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Rhetorical device
In rhetoric, a rhetorical device, persuasive device, or stylistic device is a technique that an author or speaker uses to convey to the listener or reader a meaning with the goal of persuading them towards considering a topic from a perspective, using language designed to encourage or provoke an emotional display of a given perspective or action.
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Robert Bringhurst
Robert Bringhurst Appointments to the Order of Canada (2013).
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Routledge
Routledge is a British multinational publisher.
Royal Spanish Academy
The Royal Spanish Academy (Real Academia Española, generally abbreviated as RAE) is Spain's official royal institution with a mission to ensure the stability of the Spanish language.
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S-chanf
S-chanf (Scanfs; Scanevo) is a municipality in the Maloja Region in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.
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Satyendra Nath Bose
Satyendra Nath Bose (1 January 1894 – 4 February 1974) was an Indian theoretical physicist and mathematician.
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Serif
In typography, a serif is a small line or stroke regularly attached to the end of a larger stroke in a letter or symbol within a particular font or family of fonts. Dash and serif are typography.
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Short and long titles
In certain jurisdictions, including the United Kingdom and other Westminster-influenced jurisdictions (such as Canada or Australia), as well as the United States and the Philippines, primary legislation has both a short title and a long title.
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Signature block
A signature block (often abbreviated as signature, sig block, sig file,.sig, dot sig, siggy, or just sig) is a personalized block of text automatically appended at the bottom of an email message, Usenet article, or forum post.
Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster LLC is an American publishing company owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.
Spanish language
Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.
Star Wars (film)
Star Wars (later retitled Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope) is a 1977 American epic space opera film written and directed by George Lucas, produced by Lucasfilm and distributed by Twentieth Century-Fox.
Style guide
A style guide is a set of standards for the writing, formatting, and design of documents.
Subscript and superscript
A subscript or superscript is a character (such as a number or letter) that is set slightly below or above the normal line of type, respectively. Dash and subscript and superscript are typography.
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Subtraction
Subtraction (which is signified by the minus sign) is one of the four arithmetic operations along with addition, multiplication and division.
Supplemental Punctuation
Supplemental Punctuation is a Unicode block containing historic and specialized punctuation characters, including biblical editorial symbols, ancient Greek punctuation, and German dictionary marks.
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Supreme court
In most legal jurisdictions, a supreme court, also known as a court of last resort, apex court, and high (or final) court of appeal, is the highest court within the hierarchy of courts.
Surname
A surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family.
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Taft–Hartley Act
The Labor Management Relations Act of 1947, better known as the Taft–Hartley Act, is a United States federal law that restricts the activities and power of labor unions.
Tetragraph
A tetragraph (from the τετρα-, tetra-, "four" and γράφω, gráphō, "write") is a sequence of four letters used to represent a single sound (phoneme), or a combination of sounds, that do not necessarily correspond to the individual values of the letters.
TeX
TeX (see below), stylized within the system as, is a typesetting program which was designed and written by computer scientist and Stanford University professor Donald Knuth and first released in 1978.
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The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (AHD) is a dictionary of American English published by HarperCollins.
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The Chicago Manual of Style
The Chicago Manual of Style (abbreviated as CMOS, TCM, or CMS, or sometimes as Chicago) is a style guide for American English published since 1906 by the University of Chicago Press.
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The Elements of Style
The Elements of Style (also called Strunk & White) is a style guide for formal grammar used in American English writing.
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The Elements of Typographic Style
The Elements of Typographic Style is a book on typography and style by Canadian typographer, poet and translator Robert Bringhurst. Dash and The Elements of Typographic Style are typography.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
The Mezzanine
The Mezzanine (1988) is the first novel by American writer Nicholson Baker.
The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage
The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage: The Official Style Guide Used by the Writers and Editors of the World's Most Authoritative Newspaper is a style guide first published in 1950 by editors at the newspaper and revised in 1974, 1999, and 2002 by Allan M. Siegal and William G. Connolly.
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The Walrus and the Carpenter
"The Walrus and the Carpenter" is a narrative poem by Lewis Carroll that appears in his book Through the Looking-Glass, published in December 1871.
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Thin space
In typography, a thin space is a space character whose width is usually or of an em. Dash and thin space are typography.
Tilde
The tilde or, is a grapheme with a number of uses. Dash and tilde are punctuation.
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Trans–New Guinea languages
Trans–New Guinea (TNG) is an extensive family of Papuan languages spoken on the island of New Guinea and neighboring islands, a region corresponding to the country Papua New Guinea as well as parts of Indonesia.
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Trigraph (orthography)
A trigraph digraph (from Ancient Greek δίς (dís) 'double', and γράφω (gráphō) 'to write, draw, paint, etc.')) is a group of three characters used to represent a single sound or a combination of sounds that does not correspond to the written letters combined.
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Typeface
A typeface (or font family) is a design of letters, numbers and other symbols, to be used in printing or for electronic display. Dash and typeface are typography.
Typewriter
A typewriter is a mechanical or electromechanical machine for typing characters.
Typographic alignment
In typesetting and page layout, alignment or range is the setting of text flow or image placement relative to a page, column (measure), table cell, or tab (and often to an image above it or under it). Dash and Typographic alignment are typography.
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Typographic approximation
A typographic approximation is a replacement of an element of the writing system (usually a glyph) with another glyph or glyphs. Dash and typographic approximation are typography.
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Typography
Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable and appealing when displayed.
Unicode Consortium
The Unicode Consortium (legally Unicode, Inc.) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization incorporated and based in Mountain View, California, U.S. Its primary purpose is to maintain and publish the Unicode Standard which was developed with the intention of replacing existing character encoding schemes that are limited in size and scope, and are incompatible with multilingual environments.
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Unicode symbol
In computing, a Unicode symbol is a Unicode character which is not part of a script used to write a natural language, but is nonetheless available for use as part of a text.
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
The Metropolitan Autonomous University (Spanish: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana) also known as UAM, is a Mexican public research university.
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University of Chicago Press
The University of Chicago Press is the university press of the University of Chicago, a private research university in Chicago, Illinois.
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URL
A uniform resource locator (URL), colloquially known as an address on the Web, is a reference to a resource that specifies its location on a computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it.
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Whitespace character
A whitespace character is a character data element that represents white space when text is rendered for display by a computer.
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Wiley (publisher)
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., commonly known as Wiley, is an American multinational publishing company that focuses on academic publishing and instructional materials.
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor.
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Word processor
A word processor (WP) is a device or computer program that provides for input, editing, formatting, and output of text, often with some additional features.
XeTeX
XeTeX (or; see also Pronouncing and writing "TeX") is a TeX typesetting engine using Unicode and supporting modern font technologies such as OpenType, Graphite and Apple Advanced Typography (AAT).
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Zero-width space
The zero-width space (ZWSP) is a non-printing character used in computerized typesetting to indicate where the word boundaries are, without actually displaying a visible space in the rendered text. Dash and zero-width space are typography.
1
1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity.
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References
Also known as &mdash, &ndash, ---, .E2.80.93, Dash (punctuation), Dash (special character), Dash (symbol), Dash (typography), Dash character, Dash symbol, Dashed, Dashes, EM Dash, EMdash, EN Dash, ENdash, Em and en dash, Em dashes, Em rule, Em-dash, Em-dashes, Emdashes, En dashes, En rule, En-dash, En-dashes, Endashes, Figure Dash, Horbar, Horizontal bar (dash), Horizontal bar (punctuation), Horizontal bar (typography), Long Dash, M Dash, M-dash, MDash, Mutton (punctuation), Mutton dash, N Dash, N-dash, NDash, Nut (punctuation), Nut dash, Quote bar, Spaced en dash, Swung dash, Three consecutive hyphens, Triple hyphen, Two consecutive hyphens, U+2013, U+2014, , €“, ÔÇô, ֊.