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See also: | |, ǁ [U+01C1 LATIN LETTER LATERAL CLICK], ‖ ‖, ∥ [U+2225 PARALLEL TO], and ⏸ [U+23F8 DOUBLE VERTICAL BAR]
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For IPA use, the symbol may be made heavy to distinguish it from the lateral click ⟨ǁ⟩. |
Translingual
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editThe caesura mark is a variant of the medieval Latin virgula (“scratch comma”).
Symbol
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- (literature) Used to mark caesuras.
- Hwæt! wē Gār-Dena ‖ in gēar-dagum
- (IPA, boldface) Marks a major prosodic break, which may be any level of prosodic unit if a single bar marks a metrical foot, or may mark the end of a final prosodic unit if a single bar marks the end of a continuing unit.
- (lexicography) Unnaturalised, foreign.
- (music) A pointing mark in Anglican chant, used to mark the place in a verse which corresponds to the double barline in the chant, in circumstances where this is not the same place as the colon which divides the two halves of the verse; typically done when one half is very short.
Usage notes
editThe IPA symbol is intended to be typeset in bold typeface, and is presented that way in the official IPA symbol charts.
Coordinate terms
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