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double point en · NOUN
Meanings
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A symbol, such as a colon, composed of two points.
As with the printers a full-point, a double point or colon, and a triple point, are each of them single types, the matter was still more simplified.
1882, Henry Bradshaw, Address at the opening of the fifth annual meeting of the Library Association:
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A point on a curve at which there are two tangents (because it touches itself, or has a cusp).
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