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See also: Appendix:Variations of "-" and Appendix:Variations of "="
Translingual Edit
Punctuation 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
- (decrement): ++
Letter Edit
See also Edit
Characters 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 Edit
Letter Edit
- Visual rendering of Morse code for Μ.
Hebrew Edit
Letter Edit
- Visual rendering of Morse code for מ.
Japanese Edit
Letter Edit
Thai Edit
Letter Edit
- Visual rendering of Morse code for ม.