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double vertical line en · NOUN

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1. The typographical character ‖; a symbol composed of two closely spaced line-height vertical lines.
   • The whole tone unit stands between a double vertical line (double bars) ||. 1998, Burkhard Dretzke, Modern British and American English Prononunciation: A Basic Textbook, page 89:
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see double, vertical, line.
   • The ǁGana people (800 speakers—the double vertical line denotes a click sound) of Botswana have no generic word for living things, nor do they recognize a plant versus animal distinction. 2007, K. David Harrison, When Languages Die:The Extinction of the World's Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge, page 39:
   • In addition, Leibniz drew a double vertical line from line 36 to 37 (from “solidum est” to “Mechanice”[)]. 2008, Ursula Goldenbaum, Douglas Jesseph, Infinitesimal Differences: Controversies between Leibniz and his Contemporaries, →ISBN, page 86:

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