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Translingual
Punctuation mark
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dash
Informal form of mul – (en dash) or mul — (em dash), in use due to technical restrictions or convenience of entry. Also used by tradition in comic books.
en mul 1987 Armageddon Now! w:Classic X-Men #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.
en mul November 20 2001 Dane Martin Re: I'm skipping school today... 20011120152118.09919.00000942@mb-fh.aol.com alt.litterbox https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.litterbox/33loOqyf7ak/i3ioeKRvqL0J I'm telling you -- the hobos! THE HOBOS!
en mul Brekke Fletcher Fall in the Hamptons means the happiest hour of all w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/wolffer-estate-harvest-party-hamptons-new-york 2019-09-26 As enviable as summer in the Hamptons can be -- stunning weather, beaches, greenery, produce, and yes, people -- autumn is when the east end of Long Island becomes truly magical. https://web.archive.org/web/20191001224107/https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/wolffer-estate-harvest-party-hamptons-new-york/
Symbol
mul symbol --
mul programming Decrement by 1 in certain programming languages such as C and Java.
mul programming Starts a single-line comment in some programming languages, including Ada, Haskell and Lua, as well as some query languages.
en if pizza "plain cheese" -- Checks if pizza is "plain cheese".
en SELECT id, name, birth_date -- Selects fields from a table.
Synonyms
single line comment ://
Antonyms
decrement ++
Letter
M
M (Latin)
М (Cyrillic)
See also
Greek
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Μ
Hebrew
Letter
מ
Japanese
Letter
ヨ
ョ
Thai
Letter
ม