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mark
a written or printed symbol (as for punctuation)
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character, grapheme, graphic symbol
a written symbol that is used to represent speech
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phonogram
any written symbol standing for a sound or syllable or morpheme or word
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arrow, pointer
a mark to indicate a direction or relation
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broad arrow
a mark shaped like an arrowhead; used to mark convicts' clothing
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call mark, call number, pressmark
a mark consisting of characters written on a book; used to indicate shelf location
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caret
a mark used by an author or editor to indicate where something is to be inserted into a text
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check, check mark, tick
a mark indicating that something has been noted or completed etc.
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allograph
a variant form of a grapheme, as `m' or `M' or a handwritten version of that grapheme
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check character
a character that is added to the end of a block of transmitted data and used to check the accuracy of the transmission
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superior, superscript
a character or symbol set or printed or written above and immediately to one side of another character
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inferior, subscript
a character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side of another character
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ASCII character
any member of the standard code for representing characters by binary numbers
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diacritic, diacritical mark
a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation
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ditto, ditto mark
a mark used to indicate the word above it should be repeated
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dollar mark, dollar sign
a mark ($) written before a number to indicate that it stands for the number of dollars
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head, point
a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer
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ligature
character consisting of two or more letters combined into one
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capital, capital letter, majuscule, upper-case letter, uppercase
one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis
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lower-case letter, lowercase, minuscule, small letter
the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case
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type
printed characters
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percent sign, percentage sign
a sign (`%') used to indicate that the number preceding it should be understood as a proportion multiplied by 100
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asterisk, star
a star-shaped character * used in printing
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dagger, obelisk
a character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote
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diesis, double dagger, double obelisk
a character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote
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alphabetic character, letter, letter of the alphabet
the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech
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blank, space
a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing
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phonetic symbol
a written character used in phonetic transcription of represent a particular speech sound
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mathematical symbol
a character that is used to indicates a mathematical relation or operation
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rune, runic letter
any character from an ancient Germanic alphabet used in Scandinavia from the 3rd century to the Middle Ages
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pictograph
a graphic character used in picture writing
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ideogram, ideograph
a graphic character that indicates the meaning of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it
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radical
a character conveying the lexical meaning of a logogram
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stenograph
a shorthand character
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punctuation, punctuation mark
the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases
