A few days ago
What’s this symbol called?
Ok so.
You have the forward slash (/) and the backslash (\), but what do you call the middle one? |
Does it even have a name?
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A few days ago
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In some contexts, it is called a “pipe.”
I don’t have a copy of Microsoft Word handy, but it can tell you. Go to Insert, and then Symbol. Scroll through the list of symbols until you find the vertical bar. Hover over it and it will display the name of the symbol. I have looked through the list a few times to find names for such symbols, but don’t recall the name of that one.
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5 years ago
It can be called either, but I would call it an exvlamation mark because it is typicallt compared to a question mark. Whatever you do, don’t refer to it as an excited mark because it’s not used only for excitement.
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A few days ago
It’s simply called a vertical. Some fonts produce the vertical in two pieces, like two dashes arranged one above the other vertically. In this case it’s called a split vertical. As one solid line, it is used by mathematicians by putting one on either side of a number to indicate absolute value. In that context, it would be referred to as an absolute value indicator (or absolute value brackets).
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A few days ago
A quick look at the Accessories>System Tools>Character Map suggests that it’s officially named “Vertical Line”.
I’ve never heard of any other fancy naming for it.
That was a rather suitable naming from them don’t you think? ;p
EDIT:
Oh, a couple of websites also refer to is as “vertical bar” instead of lines.
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A few days ago
i am bscs student, you’ll have programming lectures | this symbol is used for programming purposes it is the symbol for the logical operator or..usually it comes with pair ||
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A few days ago
It’s called a VERTICAL BAR.
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A few days ago
That would be the letter ‘l’, as in the last letter of your username!
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