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12:01

12:1 · A sign that since the seventeenth century has been used in mathematics to denote division, divide. Compare with synonymous 12:4 below in this group. In medical contexts it is sometimes used to indicate that a patient has defecated.
    In the margin of a letter, 12:1 or the similar 18:26 means that a supplement is enclosed, enclosure.

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