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See also: Appendix:Variations of "-" and Appendix:Variations of "="
Translingual
editPunctuation mark
edit- Informal form of – (en dash) or — (em dash), in use due to technical restrictions or convenience of entry.
- 1987, “Armageddon Now!”, in Classic X-Men (in English), section #15:
- Seven mutants -- gifted (though many might say cursed) at birth with powers that set them forever apart from the mainstream of humanity, too often feared and hated by those who they have sworn to protect -- banded together by Charles Xavier and sent forth to play the role of heroes.
Symbol
edit- (programming) Decrement by 1 in certain programming languages such as C and Java.
- (programming) Starts a single-line comment in some programming languages, including Ada, Haskell, and Lua, as well as some query languages.
if pizza == "plain cheese" -- Checks if pizza is "plain cheese".
SELECT id, name, birth_date -- Selects fields from a table.
Synonyms
edit- (single line comment): //
Antonyms
edit- (antonym(s) of “decrement”): ++
Letter
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See also
editCharacters in Morse code [edit]
.- (A) | -... (B) | -.-. (C) | -.. (D) | . (E) | ..-. (F) | --. (G) | .... (H) | .. (I) |
.--- (J) | -.- (K) | .-.. (L) | -- (M) | -. (N) | --- (O) | .--. (P) | --.- (Q) | .-. (R) |
... (S) | - (T) | ..- (U) | ...- (V) | .-- (W) | -..- (X) | -.-- (Y) | --.. (Z) | ----- (0) |
.---- (1) | ..--- (2) | ...-- (3) | ....- (4) | ..... (5) | -.... (6) | --... (7) | ---.. (8) | ----. (9) |
.-.-.- (.) | --..-- (,) | ..--.. (?) | -.-.-- (!) | ---... (:) | -.-.-. (;) | -..-. (/) | -.--. ( ( ) | -.--.- ( ) ) |
.----. (') | .-..-. (") | -...- (=) | .-.-. (+) | -....- (-) | ..--.- (_) | .-... (&) | ...-..- ($) | .--.-. (@) |
Greek
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- Visual rendering of Morse code for Μ.
Hebrew
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- Visual rendering of Morse code for מ.
Japanese
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Thai
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- Visual rendering of Morse code for ม.