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Dash

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The dash is a punctuation mark that is similar in appearance to the hyphen and minus sign but differs from these symbols in length and, in some fonts, height above the baseline.

A dash can be used to mark a break in a sentence, and a pair can be used to set off parenthetical statements.

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Graphical characteristics:
Symmetric, Open shape, Monochrome, Contains straight lines, Has no crossing lines.

Dash is part of the Punctuation group.

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