English Explanatory Dictionary

figure dash

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The punctuation mark ⟨‒⟩ (used when a dash must be used in numbers).

Word forms

figure dash figure dashes

Etymology

The name comes from the fact that the symbol is the width of a single digit in fonts where this width is constant.

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